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VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,147 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($50,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Rice Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Carilion Medical Centershared funderslocal
- The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trusteeportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 15% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 29% · 2022 34% · 2023 2% · 2024 18% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $44k → $6k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 30% · 2019 80% · 2020 82% · 2021 72% · 2022 45% · 2023 49% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
18% of VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Rice Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchVA · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Carilion Medical Centershared funderslocalVA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 48 organizations near you
- The Rail Heritage Trust First Option Bank Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rouse-Bottom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The West Virginia Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Historical Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roller-Bottimore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peachtree House Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goode Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Candelaria Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friendship Apartment Village CorporationlocalVA · funds 12 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC?
- VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,147 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($50,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $216,147 in grants to VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing