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Clean Virginia

Promote social welfare including but not limited to engaging in advocacy to promote good governance and clean energy.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Environment$193kPublic Benefit$102kHousing & Shelter$50kCivil Rights$50kPhilanthropy$20kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK$65,160
VA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT$25,000
MONEYOUTVA$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%AMERICAN PROMISE: $6k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50k → 6%COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $13k → 8%VIRGINIA RENEWABLE ENERGY: $8k → 9%MONEYOUTVA: $10k → 9%NATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPM: $15k → 9%GIVE SOLAR: $100k → 11%VA ENVIR JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE: $30k → 22%VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $50k → 8%MONEYOUTVA: $10k → 9%CLIMATE ACTION ALLIANCE: $35k → 11%VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $65k → 22%VA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $26k → 22%VA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $25k → 22%VA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $20k → 22%VENTURE RICHMOND EVENTS LLC: $15k → 22%NATIONAL TRANSPARENCY PROJECT: $25k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Virginia Interfaith Power & Light

Virginia Interfaith Power & Light collaborates among people of faith and conscience to grow healthy communities by advancing climate and environmental education.

Environment
2
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.

3
Virginia League of Conservation Voters

Public advocacy, mobilization, and volunteer support around environmental topics such as climate and energy, clean water, and healthy communities.

4
Virginia Energy Efficiency Council

Advance energy efficiency

Environment
5
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

6
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.

Environment
7
Appalachian Voices

Appalachian voices brings people together to protect the land, air, and water of central and southern appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy.

Environment
8
Virginia Community Food Connections

Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.

Food & Nutrition
9
Wild Virginia Incorporated

Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.

Environment
10
Virginias United Land Trusts

Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…

Environment
11
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
12
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Climate Action Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tri-River Habitat for Humanity Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT — $71,000 · OtherVA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECTTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $50,000 · OtherTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCCLIMATE ACTION ALLIANCE — $35,000 · OtherCLIMATE ACTION ALLIANCENATIONAL TRANSPARENCY PROJECT INC — $24,625 · OtherNATIONAL TRANSPARENCY PROJECT INCMONEYOUTVA — $20,000 · OtherMONEYOUTVANATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPM — $15,000 · OtherVENTURE RICHMOND EVENTS LLC — $15,000 · Other+3 more — $22,615 · Other+3 moreVIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK — $65,160 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORKVIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE — $30,000 · EnvironmentVIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTIC…CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NET…COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE — $12,575 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATI…THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $9,800 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL CO…VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA O…
Other$353,240Environment$142,535Community Improvement$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK — $65,160 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE — $30,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE — $12,575 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $9,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Westwind FoundationCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Westwind Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Clean Virginia funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Clean Virginia?

    Find your warmest path to Clean Virginia through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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