Virginia · Nonprofit
Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc
Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,382,410 to it, the largest being POTOMAC HEALTH FOUNDATION ($464,700). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc does
Mission
We strive to harness the power of the arts to engage, heal & inspire communities through creativity, cultural enrichment, historic preservation, & positive social impact.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education Program: The Workhouse Arts Foundation provides arts classes, workshops, camps and education to the general public, as well as the military community through the Workhouse Military in the Arts Initiative, offering a total of over 100 classes quarterly and 25 camps annually, in approximately 15 disciplines, to children and adults of all ability levels. The Workhouse dedicates approximately 12 teaching classrooms in 7 buildings on the campus. Each year over 1,500 students enrolled in more than 425 classes, workshops, and camps that are taught by nearly 60 teaching artists. Approximately 30% of the teaching artists are also Workhouse campus artists. The Workhouse Arts Foundation also provides movement-based wellness and fitness classes through the Art of Movement program. Classes include traditional fitness classes, meditative movement, creative movement classes, and youth gymnastic fundamentals programs through our Kidnastics Gymnastics initiative. Art of Movement offers a total of over 600 classes annually to over 2,000 students of all ages.
$1,026,229 spent$966,866 earned by the program42% of program spendingPerforming Arts Program: The Workhouse Arts Foundation provides more than 150 individual performances annually in theatre, dance, music, and film, including our annual Haunted Trail interactive-performance event. In addition to productions created in-house, the department also offers a robust 'presenting' series in which local (and touring) musicians and performing artists are programmed as part of our season calendar. In addition, these venue spaces are available for community organizations and other performing arts groups to be able to present their works to our neighbors. Through our connection to the Fairfax County Park Authority, the Workhouse Arts Foundation has been proud to host free concerts on Saturday nights during the Summer as part of the Mt Vernon Nights initiative.The Workhouse Arts Foundation has multiple performance spaces including a 100-seat black box theater, and a 300-seat outdoor performance pavilion with room for several hundred more in the lawn areas adjacent to the stage. Our McGuireWoods Gallery has also hosted musical concerts and stand-up comedy performances throughout each season and has a capacity of 150 persons. In addition to traditional performing…
$886,912 spent$695,267 earned by the program36% of program spendingStudio Artists and Visual Arts: The Workhouse Visual Arts Program provides essential professional support through two key initiatives. We offer approximately 60 below-market rate studio spaces, maintaining an average 97% occupancy, which supports over 55 juried artists who create, exhibit, and sell their work on-site. The program also supports an almost 20 additional juried visual artists through exhibition and sales opportunities in the Arches gallery. The Workhouse produces roughly 100 annual art exhibitions across diverse disciplines including but not limited to painting, glass, ceramics, fiber arts, and photography. A significant portion of these are juried, competitive, and national in scope, demonstrating a commitment to fostering professional artistic careers.
$344,775 spent$354,776 earned by the program14% of program spendingMuseum and History Program: The Workhouse Arts Foundation operates the Lorton Prison Museum featuring the Lucy Burns Gallery, a free-admission institution located within the former Lorton Correctional Complex (1910-2001). The museum engages visitors by exploring the site's evolution from a Progressive Era reformatory to a significant adaptive reuse project. Key themes include the site's critical role in the American women's suffrage movement and its eventual failure as an American carceral site. These stories are brought to life through curated exhibitions, educational tours, and diverse public programming. The department is led by a Museum Director, supported by five full- and part-time staff members and a dedicated team of volunteer docents who steward this unique cultural legacy for the community.
$209,168 spent$8,222 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,467,084.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.2M to $4.6M (+41%).
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 13% · 2022 28% · 2023 16% · 2024 5% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Vincette Goerl
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $35k → $203k.
9 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc’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
Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
45% 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 Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 58% · 2019 74% · 2020 36% · 2021 42% · 2022 25% · 2023 45% — 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
67% of Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
75% of Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $327k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Waf LLC · disregarded
- Workhouse Museum Development LLC · disregarded
- Workhouse Arts Center LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc?
- Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,382,410 to it, the largest being POTOMAC HEALTH FOUNDATION ($464,700). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,382,410 in grants to Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Workhouse Arts Foundation Inc?
- POTOMAC HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $464,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Workhouse Arts 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.
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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 24 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