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VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY
VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY (Virginia) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,465,166 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,937,681). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 36 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 Pauley Family Foundationshared funders
- The Columbus Phipps Foundationportfolio match
- Bayport Foundationportfolio 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 8% · 2018 11% · 2019 11% · 2020 26% · 2021 59% · 2022 34% · 2023 33% · 2024 21% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $3.4M.
13 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 UNION UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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.
How concentrated its funding is
VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 25% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 UNION UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 64% · 2019 51% · 2020 52% · 2021 28% · 2022 32% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“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
51% of VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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 UNION UNIVERSITY draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 75 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Pauley Family Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 90 organizations that share your funders
- The Columbus Phipps Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bayport Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carl del Signore Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hughes Memorial Homeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The English Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Annabella R Jenkins Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Herndon Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 104 organizations that share your funders
- Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalitionshared fundersVA · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairnshared fundersPA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Robins Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 97 organizations that share your funders
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 UNION UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $74.3M on record — $74.3M federal, $150 state.
- Department of Education$67.3M
- Department of Commerce$3.0M
- National Science Foundation$2.7M
- Department of the Interior$1.0M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$258k
- Department of Defense$125k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$150
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.
Organizations like VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Industrial Hall Landlord LLC · partnership
- Industrial Hall Manager LLC · partnership
- Industrial Hall Master Tenant LLC · partnership
- Industrial Hall Blocker · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY: 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 UNION UNIVERSITY?
- VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY (Virginia) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,465,166 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,937,681). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $23,465,166 in grants to VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,937,681 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY 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 75funders 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