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VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC

VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 337 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,505,060 to it, the largest being RED GATES FOUNDATION ($22,500,000). 204 of them have funded it in more than one year. VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$246M
Revenue FY2025
337
Funders on record
$165M
Grants received
$2.1B
Net assets
204/337 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$446M

Recipients

5

Contributions on record

$204M

Donors on record

382

Payments out run 2.2x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($226M) Expenses 100 ($124M) Net assets 100 ($1.2B)2018 Revenue 101 ($227M) Expenses 110 ($137M) Net assets 107 ($1.3B)2019 Revenue 103 ($233M) Expenses 106 ($132M) Net assets 115 ($1.4B)2020 Revenue 98 ($222M) Expenses 112 ($139M) Net assets 117 ($1.4B)2021 Revenue 150 ($339M) Expenses 92 ($115M) Net assets 144 ($1.7B)2022 Revenue 141 ($317M) Expenses 162 ($201M) Net assets 143 ($1.7B)2023 Revenue 99 ($222M) Expenses 136 ($169M) Net assets 153 ($1.8B)2024 Revenue 130 ($294M) Expenses 147 ($183M) Net assets 166 ($2.0B)2025 Revenue 109 ($246M) Expenses 166 ($206M) Net assets 174 ($2.1B)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (109)Expenses (166)Net assets (174)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$101M
’17
$91M
’18
$102M
’19
$83M
’20
$224M
’21
$116M
’22
$53M
’23
$111M
’24
$40M
’25
6.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 87 funders to 144 funders, grant income rose $6.5M → $34M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
Deloitte Foundationunclassified
$1.8M
funders
87
94
99
125
140
142
144
136
79
2

41 of 337 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $21M from 36 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Norwich University); $17M from 2 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Horace G Fralin Charitable Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 337 funders by total. 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.

Where its funders are

66% of VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 states is 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.

03Its place in the field

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 337 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.

Federal$3.0M
grants $3.0Mcontracts $32k
19
23
Top agencies
  • Department of Commerce$3.0M
  • Department of Agriculture$32k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 5%Fundraising 4%

Governance

35
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Part of a family of 15 related entities

  • River Course LLC · disregarded
  • Vt Technology Assets LLC · disregarded
  • Vtf-Vep II LLC · disregarded
  • Maroon Asia I LLC · disregarded
  • Maroon US Pcc LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC?
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 337 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,505,060 to it, the largest being RED GATES FOUNDATION ($22,500,000). 204 of them have funded it in more than one year. VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 337 organizations giving $164,505,060 in grants to VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC, 204 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC?
RED GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION 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 337funders 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