Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Visual Resources Association
Visual Resources Association (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,422 to it, the largest being SAMUEL H KRESS FOUNDATION ($42,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $450k
What Visual Resources Association does
Programs
Summer Education Institute-To provide information professionals with valuable training and education in the area of visualresources and image management.
$13,338 spent17% of program spendingRegional Workshops/Conferences-Training for visual resource professionalsin developing, preserving, and advocating for the scholarlylife cycle of cultural heritage resources.
$52,689 spent66% of program spendingProject and Professional Development Grants-Awarded for programs and projects in the VRAF grant areas of interest.
$5,494 spentof which $5,494 as grants7% of program spendingTravel and Distinguised Service Awards.
$8,050 spentof which $8,050 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $79,571.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $40k to $428k (+982%).
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.
10% of Visual Resources Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Visual Resources Association’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
Visual Resources Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Visual Resources Association draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Visual Resources Association has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Visual Resources Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $290 on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$290
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 Visual Resources Association
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Visual Resources Association: 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 Visual Resources Association?
- Visual Resources Association (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,422 to it, the largest being SAMUEL H KRESS FOUNDATION ($42,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Visual Resources Association have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $47,422 in grants to Visual Resources Association, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Visual Resources Association?
- SAMUEL H KRESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Visual Resources Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 3 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing