- Revenue 2024
- $19,485,044
- Expenses 2024
- $12,372,172
Program services were 79.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A99
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 440 BANK ST
These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
THE MISSION OF THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL IS TO BRING WORLD-CLASS PERFORMING ARTS TO OUR CITIZENS AND VISITORS, IMPACT THE LIVES OF STUDENTS THROUGH OUTSTANDING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, COMMISSION NEW WORKS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE, AND MAKE A TANGIBLE DIFFERENCE IN HAMPTON ROADS THROUGH REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AND CULTURAL TOURISM.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO PRESENT CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE GREATER HAMPTON ROADS REGION OF VIRGINIA.
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DURING THE PERIOD OF JULY 1, 2024 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2025, THE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL PRODUCED 72 EVENTS: 62 TICKETED PERFORMANCES AND 10 FREE EVENTS. THERE WERE MORE THAN 53,600 PATRONS ATTENDING TICKETED EVENTS AND MORE THAN 28,200 ATTENDING FREE EVENTS WITH VISITORS FROM 45 STATES AND WASHINGTON, D.C. AND 9 INTERNATIONAL COUNTRIES. THERE WERE 10 SOLD OUT PERFORMANCES . THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT HAD 103 EVENTS (COMPRISED OF MASTERCLASSES, OPEN DRESS REHERSALS, AND PERFORMANCES), WITH LOCAL STUDENT PARTICIPATION OF 27,943, FROM 140 SCHOOLS IN 18 CITY/DISTRICTS.
Expenses $9,800,455 · Revenue $2,819,199
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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NAOMI MUELLNER
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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SIMON SCOTT III
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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AIMEE C BATTEN
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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BERT SCHMIDT
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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BURRELL SAUNDERS
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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CLAY H BARR
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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CONNIE JACOBSON
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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DAVID M DELPIERRE ESQ
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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DR MARCIA CONSTON
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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EDITH G GRANDY
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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HOWARD GORDON ESQ
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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JAMES A HIXON
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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JAMES M LAVIER III
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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JOHN FIELD
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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JOSEPH HEARST
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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KATHERINE WYNNE
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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KELLY TILL
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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L PAIGE PERRY
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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LAUREN SPARKS
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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LESLIE E DOYLE
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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LISA F CHANDLER
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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MARTHA GOODE
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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MAURICE A JONES
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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MAXINE HUMPHREY ADAMS
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
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PAUL D FRAIM
BOARD MEMBER/TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.3
The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $19,485,044
- Expenses
- $12,372,172
- Contributions
- $15,703,867
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $16,411,609
- Expenses
- $10,462,017
- Contributions
- $12,937,640
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $12,308,747
- Expenses
- $10,657,616
- Contributions
- $9,363,482
- Grants paid
- $0
The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.
Other returns filed
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $13,814,301
- Expenses
- $10,182,316
- Assets (EOY)
- $42,180,047
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $13,482,512
- Expenses
- $6,110,399
- Assets (EOY)
- $42,275,473
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,958,733
- Expenses
- $4,533,761
- Assets (EOY)
- $30,657,132
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $9,162,997
- Expenses
- $7,799,614
- Assets (EOY)
- $30,062,110
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $11,229,487
- Expenses
- $7,743,835
- Assets (EOY)
- $28,339,767
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $9,168,989
- Expenses
- $8,052,877
- Assets (EOY)
- $24,957,552
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $10,009,002
- Expenses
- $7,894,991
- Assets (EOY)
- $22,923,057
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $8,174,593
- Expenses
- $5,809,580
- Assets (EOY)
- $20,575,608
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $8,372,087
- Expenses
- $5,879,555
- Assets (EOY)
- $18,575,505
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $5,976,740
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,695,438
Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$639,231
2025 CULTURE
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HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$518,166
2023 CULTURE
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HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
$450,918
2022 CULTURE
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$350,000
2024 EDUCATION
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$199,000
2023 VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS & DIVERSE PROGRAMMING
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 ART SUPPORT
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2023 ART SUPPORT
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2024 ART SUPPORT
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Taxable family
From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.
Disregarded entities on its 2024 return
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VAF REALTY LLC
REAL ESTATE · VA · income $0 · assets $9,370,395
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.