Virginia · Nonprofit
WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE
WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,436,230 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,119,039). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $265k
What Wedgwood Circle Institute does
Mission
The wedgwood circle is a network that connects our members (patrons & investors) with creatives (artists & industry executives) to create art and entertainment that is good, true, and beautiful in every way. Simply put, we help our community become more effective and discerning creators, consumers, investors and patrons of the arts and entertainment industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2024 there were virtual events and four in-person events all designed to foster investment and patronage into artists who are creating content that is "good, true and beautiful for the common good." events included:the wedgwood investor summit: april 2024 - held in stanford, kygaming retreat: june 2024 - held in portland, or the goodlit writers retreat: august 2024 - held in stanford, kythe wedgwood annual event: november 2024 - held in nashville, tn the monthly industry zooms: first friday of the month
$1,048,987 spentof which $571,336 as grants$37,810 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,048,987.
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 2019 to 2020, from $205k to $388k (+89%).
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: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Mark Rodgers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $293k → $864k.
15 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE’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
WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 89% · 2019 85% · 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 64% · 2023 44% — 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
38% of WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
77% of WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $798k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE's revenue grew 42% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
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 WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wedgwood Culture Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE: 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 WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE?
- WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,436,230 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,119,039). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,436,230 in grants to WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,119,039 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEDGWOOD CIRCLE INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing