Virginia · Nonprofit
Voluntary Protection Programs Participants
Voluntary Protection Programs Participants (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,801 to it, the largest being Nustar Foundation ($11,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Voluntary Protection Programs Participants does
Mission
To promote worker, industry and public health and safety through voluntary cooperation with the us government in educating the industry about osha, vpp, and other voluntary governmental efforts to improve worker and environmental health and safety.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
National Conference - Provides ideal setting for members from a wide variety of industries across the country to share ideas on environmental, health and safety issues. Approximate number of persons benefited is 4,000.
$1,532,798 spent$2,116,055 earned by the program69% of program spendingOther Programs Include: Outreach, courses, government affairs, scholarships, and support for chapters.
$369,421 spentof which $14,000 as grants$58,534 earned by the program17% of program spendingMembership - Increase and promote worker industry health and safety through voluntary cooperation. The Association provides its members a direct link to OSHA, DOE and similar agencies legislative information. Approximate number of persons benefited is 500,000.
$239,467 spent$484,871 earned by the program11% of program spendingNewsletter - The leader is the official magazine of the VPPPA. Inside, readers can find articles on the latest regulatory developments in the field of occupational safety and health, safety and health best practices, association activities, educational and networking opportunities, as well as the latest VPP approvals.
$90,123 spent$10,050 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,231,809.
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 $5.4M to $4.6M (−16%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Christopher Williams
Executive Director
Board chair
Terry Schulte
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $76 → $12k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’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
Voluntary Protection Programs Participants leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
Voluntary Protection Programs Participants draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Voluntary Protection Programs Participants runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Voluntary Protection Programs Participants
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 Voluntary Protection Programs Participants: 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 Voluntary Protection Programs Participants?
- Voluntary Protection Programs Participants (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,801 to it, the largest being Nustar Foundation ($11,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Voluntary Protection Programs Participants have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,801 in grants to Voluntary Protection Programs Participants, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Voluntary Protection Programs Participants?
- Nustar Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Voluntary Protection Programs Participants 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.
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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 2 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