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VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FOUNDATION

EIN 54-1854399 RICHMOND, VA

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Revenue 2024
$3,946,392
Expenses 2024
$3,154,296

Program services were 94.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H99Z
Classification
1000
Street
800 E LEIGH ST STE 3000

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 FOUNDATION DETERMINES THE PATENTABILITY AND OBTAINS PATENTS ON VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY (VCU) INVENTIONS AND MARKETS AND LICENSES SUCH INVENTIONS TO COMMERICAL ENTITIES. THE FOUNDATION'S ACTIVITIES PROMOTE RESEARCH EFFORTS AT THE SCHOOL AND RESULTING ROYALTIES PROVIDE ECONOMIC SUPPORT FOR THE UNIVERSITY. THE FOUNDATION ALSO PROVIDES PATENT AND LICENSING CLINICS FOR VCU STUDENTS AND EMPLOYED APPROXIMATELY 1 VCU STUDENT AS AN INTERN OR PART-TIME EMPLOYEE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

VIRIGNIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO FOSTER A CULTURE OF INNOVATION AT VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY (VCU) AND TO PROTECT AND COMMERCIALIZE INVENTIONS CREATED BY THE VCU RESEARCH ENTERPRISE FOR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.

  • TO PROTECT AND COMMERCIALIZE VCU TECHNOLOGIES THROUGH PATENTING AND LICENSING. DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2024, THE VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FOUNDATION HAD - 1110 NEW INVENTION DISCLOSURES BY VCU INVENTORS - 171 PATENT APPLICATIONS FILED - 20 PATENTS ISSUED - 27 LICENSES AND OPTIONS - 17 PROOF-OF-CONCEPT GRANTS - 17 START-UP LICENSES AND 8 NEW VENTURES.

    Expenses $2,968,655 · Revenue $3,197,659

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Dr Ivelina S Metcheva

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $250,801
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $213,931
    Other
    $36,870
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $213,931 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $36,870 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $250,801 related
  • Andrew White

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mr Spencer Williamson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • P Srirama Rao

    EX-OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Dales Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Reinhold Brand

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Pellegrino

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,946,392
    Expenses
    $3,154,296
    Contributions
    $711,743
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,349,198
    Expenses
    $3,190,692
    Contributions
    $538,322
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,808,546
    Expenses
    $2,987,908
    Contributions
    $419,833
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,452,341
    Expenses
    $3,503,592
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,582,975
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,855,474
    Expenses
    $2,935,342
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,910,012
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,442,400
    Expenses
    $2,678,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,538,318
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,548,417
    Expenses
    $2,893,770
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,240,527
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,617,743
    Expenses
    $2,383,319
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,268,007
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,657,713
    Expenses
    $4,328,267
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,015,894
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,283,813
    Expenses
    $2,047,748
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,086,106
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,443,659
    Expenses
    $1,914,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,725,376
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,831,832
    Expenses
    $1,574,195
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,202,831

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.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • VIRGINIA COMMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY

    SECTION 170(B)(1)(A) · PROMOTE & AID SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION & RESEARCH AT VCU. · VA

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 SOUNK.

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.