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Clean Virginia at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

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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.

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesapeake Climate Action Network Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherMONEYOUTVAVENTURE RICHMOND EVENTS LLC: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL ENERGY EDUCATION DEVELOPM: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Westwind FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clean Virginia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clean Virginia. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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