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VIRGINIA INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY

EIN 54-1870848 LEXINGTON, VA

Largest nonprofits in Virginia

Revenue 2024
$1,353,550
Expenses 2024
$1,320,561

Program services were 87.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W05
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 76

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 ORGANIZATION IS COMMITTED TO THE GOALS OF INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. THROUGH RESEARCH, POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS, AND SYMPOSIA, THE INSTITUTE WORKS AHEAD OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS TO LAY THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATION FOR A SOCIETY DEDICATED TO INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, DYNAMIC ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPITALISM, PRIVATE PROPERTY, THE RULE OF LAW, AND CONSTITUTIONALLY-LIMITED GOVERNMENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC POLICY IS AN INDEPENDENT, NONPARTISAN, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO THE GOALS OF INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH.

  • WE FOCUS ON PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES PERTINENT TO THE COMMONWEALTH WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE FOLLOWING THEMES:THE PEOPLE VS. THE "ANOINTED; ELECTION INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY; EDUCATION; CAPITALISM VS. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM; DEVOLUTION OF POWER; PHILSOPHY OF LAW.A MAJOR PORTION OF OUR POLICY RESEARCH INVOLVES REDEFINING THE ROLE, SCOPE, AND COST OF GOVERNMENT IN A FREE SOCIETY.

    Expenses $1,153,513

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.

  • Timothy E Donnor

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Derwood S Chase Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charles J Cooper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Becky Norton Dunlop

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Douglas C Mills

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard F Norman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lynn Taylor

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $110,000
    From this org
    $110,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $1,353,550
    Expenses
    $1,320,561
    Contributions
    $1,347,489
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,178,491
    Expenses
    $1,016,078
    Contributions
    $1,167,948
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $506,466
    Expenses
    $576,299
    Contributions
    $471,759
    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
    $303,434
    Expenses
    $241,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $174,980

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $508,434
    Expenses
    $241,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $379,980

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $248,625
    Expenses
    $159,038
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,409

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $141,501
    Expenses
    $165,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,456

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $165,446
    Expenses
    $144,586
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,028

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $106,613
    Expenses
    $180,501
    Assets (EOY)
    $85,422

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $222,596
    Expenses
    $159,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $153,209

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $117,350
    Expenses
    $105,111
    Assets (EOY)
    $91,041

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $111,680
    Expenses
    $103,983
    Assets (EOY)
    $78,087

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $110,161
    Expenses
    $117,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $71,273

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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