Delaware · Private foundation
The Orvis Charitable 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.
- $95k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 41
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Orvis Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $95k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $230k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $271k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $198k | 74% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $153k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $62k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Everglades Foundation Inc | $182,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Captains for Clean Water Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Trout Unlimited Inc | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Petfinder Foundation | $80,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Trout Unlimited | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Casting for Recovery | $33,356 | 3 | 1% |
| SheJumps | $32,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 81 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Orvis Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Truettner Family Foundation · Perkins Charitable Foundation · Alcyon Foundation · Morse Hill Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Reid Lillian Charitable Foundation · Mount Laurel Foundation Inc Co Arthur Short · Stratton Mountain & Valley Community Benefit Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Orvis Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Orvis Charitable Foundation give?
- The Orvis Charitable Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $95,299 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Orvis Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (64%), Animals (14%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Orvis Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Everglades Foundation Inc ($182k), Captains for Clean Water Inc ($90k), Trout Unlimited Inc ($90k).
- Does The Orvis Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Orvis Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Orvis Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Truettner Family Foundation, Perkins Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Orvis Charitable Foundation based?
- The Orvis Charitable Foundation is based in DE.
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