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The Orange Tree Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$79kEducation$75kRecreation & Sports$49kArts & Culture$29kScience & Tech$26kCrime & Legal$18kHealth$16kAnimals$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$9,062
PEABODY SCHOOL$6,000
USTA MID-ATLANTIC SECTION INC$6,000
FUEL$6,000
OUTWARD BOUND$5,246
SOUTHERN ENVIONMENTAL LAW CTR$4,280
RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY$4,280
YOUNG CTR FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN$4,279
SARA$4,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$3,000
RARE$3,000
OPERATION SMILE$3,000
INTL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE$2,000
LIVE ARTS$2,000
STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $10k → 10%TUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST: $3k → 6%SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $4k → 14%SAVING NATURE: $2k → 8%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $3k → 9%YOUNG CTR FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN: $2k → 14%USTA MID-ATLANTIC SECTION INC: $5k → 6%RARE: $3k → 7%SARA: $2k → 8%INTL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE: $15k → 8%OPERATION SMILE: $3k → 10%DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $10k → 10%FUEL: $6k → 8%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $3k → 14%YOUNG CTR FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN: $2k → 14%USTA MID-ATLANTIC SECTION INC: $5k → 6%RARE: $3k → 7%PEABODY SCHOOL: $7k → 8%OPERATION SMILE: $3k → 10%DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $5k → 10%FUEL: $5k → 8%RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $2k → 14%YOUNG CTR FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN: $2k → 14%USTA MID-ATLANTIC SECTION INC: $2k → 6%PEABODY SCHOOL: $6k → 8%OPERATION SMILE: $3k → 10%FUEL: $5k → 8%SOUTHERN ENVIONMENTAL LAW CTR: $4k → 8%OPERATION SMILE: $3k → 10%FUEL: $5k → 8%VILLAGE SCHOOL: $3k → 8%FUEL: $5k → 8%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $9k → 7%MARTHA'S VINEYARD OCEAN ACADEMY: $5k → 8%BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $5k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6k → 7%BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $4k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6k → 7%BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $4k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6k → 7%BRADY CTR TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $4k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6k → 7%USTA MID-ATLANTIC SECTION INC: $6k → 7%CHARLOTTESVILLEALBEMARLE SPCA: $6k → 8%SARA: $4k → 8%CHARLOTTESVILLEALBEMARLE SPCA: $3k → 8%CA SPCA: $3k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
UT
VA
MD
DE
KS
NC
DC
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$301k · 25 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
8

Total granted

$301k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-23%

Still filing today

80%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DM
    DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +9%
  • TI
    THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVLLE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +19%
  • PS
    PEABODY SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -96% · 58% of their budget
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD OCEAN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • LF
    LOCAL FOOD HUB INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -68%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
3
The Miller School of Albemarle

We create opportunities for discovery and reflection by engaging the minds, hands, and hearts of our students.

Education
4
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
7
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Anne's-Belfield Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rails to Trails Conservancy. 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

28 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. 28 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
22/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $33,601 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYFUEL: $26,000 · OtherFUELOUTWARD BOUND: $25,768 · OtherOUTWARD BOUNDDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC: $25,696 · OtherDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INCSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $12,280 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERSARA: $12,000 · OtherSARAYOUNG CTR FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN: $11,279 · OtherYOUNG CTR FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $11,000 · OtherALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANI…+7 more: $21,000 · Other+7 morePEABODY SCHOOL: $19,000 · EducationPEABODY SCHOOLTHE SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE SHENANDOAH FOUND…VILLAGE SCHOOL: $8,000 · EducationVILLAGE SCHOOLDavidson College: $7,000 · EducationDavidson CollegeSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUT…Foxcroft School: $5,000 · EducationFoxcroft SchoolST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC: $5,000 · EducationST ANNE'S-BELFIELD I…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $3,800 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC+1 more: $500 · EducationTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVLLE INC: $20,500 · Arts & CultureTHE INTERN…STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING: $6,500 · Arts & CultureSTELLA ADL…LIVE ARTS INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureLIVE ARTS …RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $13,280 · EnvironmentRAILS TO …RARE: $9,500 · EnvironmentRARETUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentTUCKERNUC…SAVING NATURE INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentSAVING NA…USTAMid-Atlantic Foundation: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsOPERATION SMILE INC: $15,000 · InternationalThe End Fund Inc: $3,000 · InternationalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $17,747 · Crime & Legal
Other$178,624Education$68,300Arts & Culture$33,500Environment$32,780Recreation & Sports$23,000International$18,000Crime & Legal$17,747

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $33,601 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC: $25,696 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVLLE INC: $20,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPEABODY SCHOOL: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUSTAMid-Atlantic Foundation: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $17,747 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $13,280 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $12,280 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRARE: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST INC: $8,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetVILLAGE SCHOOL: $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDavidson College: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE ARTS INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFoxcroft School: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL FOOD HUB INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe End Fund Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING NATURE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOOFBEATS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVLLE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds USTAMid-Atlantic Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds RARE ↗
  • Who funds TUCKERNUCK LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING ↗
  • Who funds LIVE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
  • Who funds ST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL FOOD HUB INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The End Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAVING NATURE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOOFBEATS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area …Perry Foundation IncS&P Global Foundation…The Bessemer Giving F…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Orange Tree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Orange Tree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 36 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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