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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Environment$673kAnimals$148kHealth$67kRecreation & Sports$60kEducation$58kArts & Culture$22kYouth Development$15kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TROUT UNLIMITED INC$30,000
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC$25,000
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC$10,000
PETFINDER FOUNDATION$5,000
FISH FOR CHANGE$5,000
MAYFLY PROJECT$5,000
RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC$2,500
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC$2,500
PROTECT OUR RIVERS$2,500
CLEAN VALLEY COUNCIL INC$2,000
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SHELTER$2,000
MARK SKINNER LIBRARY$1,000
NORTHSHIRE CIVIC CENTER INC$999
COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC$500
GREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES$500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COLLABRIA CARE: $100 → 9%FISH FOR CHANGE: $5k → 12%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $3k → 20%RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $500 → 20%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$800k · 31 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
55

Total granted

$800k
$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+12%

Still filing today

87%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $182k · revenue +115%
  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $90k · revenue +133%
  • CASTING FOR RECOVERY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $105k
  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • UM
    Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +81%

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

04Your 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
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
2
Ausable Freshwater Center Incorporated

Advancing science and stewardship of adirondack waters.

Environment
3
Royal River Conservation Trust

The royal river conservation trust (rrct) is a regional land trust working primarily in seven maine municipalities. the trust owns,cares for, and stewards land and conservation easements to protect land and water resources for the general…

Environment
4
Wentworth Watershed Association

To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.

Environment
5
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
6
Willamette Riverkeeper

Willamette riverkeeper's guiding principle is: "we believe a river with excellent water quality, abundant natural habitat, safe for fishing and recreation is a basic public right." for 27 years, willamette riverkeeper (wrk) has acted as…

Environment
7
Norwalk River Watershed Association Inc

To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed

Environment
8
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment
9
Running Rivers

Our mission is to conserve and restore native fish ecosystems by educating and inspiring a diverse community of recreationists to engage in conversation through responsible and thoughtful recreation, informed advocacy and philanthropy, and…

Human Services
10
Vermont Riverlands Llc

To protect and enhance the natural resources of vermont in order to promote the well-being of present and future generations of vermonters and visitors; preserve and aid in the preservation of open land along rivers and lakes; protect and…

Environment
11
Five Rivers Conservation Trust

To sustain healthy communities by connecting people to nature and conserving land forever in the capital region of new hampshire. we envision productive farms and forests, clean water, thriving wildlife habitats, and climate-resilient…

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12
Roaring Fork Conservancy

To inspire people to explore, value, and protect the roaring fork watershed.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Fletchers Cove. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersMilitary Veterans SupportSenior Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%47%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,482

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

77 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 96 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
49/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $182,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INCCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC — $90,000 · EnvironmentCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INCTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORA…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC — $17,300 · Environment+11 more — $52,484 · Environment+11 moreTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $90,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INCPetfinder Foundation — $80,000 · AnimalsPetfinder FoundationTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $30,000 · AnimalsTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSER…Bennington County Humane Society Inc — $10,200 · AnimalsOREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Animals+7 more — $15,400 · Animals+7 moreTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $105,000 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITED INCTROUT UNLIMITED — $60,000 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITEDNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL — $15,000 · OtherNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL+39 more — $60,702 · Other+39 moreSheJumps — $32,000 · EducationSheJumpsUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $22,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…BURR & BURTON SEMINARY — $14,500 · EducationBURR & BU…Arlington Arts & Enrichment Program dba Arlington Common — $12,000 · EducationArlington…Upper Missouri Waterkeeper Inc — $10,000 · EducationUpper Mis…+1 more — $100 · EducationCASTING FOR RECOVERY — $33,356 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $15,000 · HealthREEL RECOVERY INC — $5,000 · HealthTHE HUMBLE HUSTLE COMPANY INC — $3,500 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $2,500 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION — $2,500 · Health+7 more — $1,100 · HealthRIVERS OF RECOVERY — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO HIGH-COUNTRY EDUCATIONAL TREKS — $4,683 · Recreation & SportsNorthshire Civic Center Inc — $4,496 · Recreation & SportsROANOKE OUTSIDE — $2,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $100 · Recreation & SportsTHE MAYFLY PROJECT — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF VERMONT INC — $1,000 · Youth Development
Environment$386,784Animals$235,600Other$240,702Education$90,600Health$62,956Recreation & Sports$21,779Youth Development$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $182,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC — $90,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPetfinder Foundation — $80,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCASTING FOR RECOVERY — $33,356 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSheJumps — $32,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC — $17,300 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBURR & BURTON SEMINARY — $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArlington Arts & Enrichment Program dba Arlington Common — $12,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetProtect Our Rivers — $11,984 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBennington County Humane Society Inc — $10,200 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUpper Missouri Waterkeeper Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MAYFLY PROJECT — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRIVERS OF RECOVERY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMark Skinner Library — $6,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAS GOOD AS GOLD - GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF ILLINOIS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF FLETCHERS COVE — $5,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetSCHREMS WEST MICHIGAN TROUT UNLIMITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetWoodstock Land Conservancy Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSELKIRK CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREEL RECOVERY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO HIGH-COUNTRY EDUCATIONAL TREKS — $4,683 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorthshire Civic Center Inc — $4,496 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMBLE HUSTLE COMPANY INC — $3,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLOUD FOREST INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetROANOKE OUTSIDE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT GREEN-UP INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAN VALLEY COUNCIL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF VERMONT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBennington Area Habitat for Humanity — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Vermont Community…Truettner Family Foun…Perkins Charitable Fo…Alcyon FoundationMorse Hill Foundation…The Windham Foundatio…PatagoniaorgCommunity Bank Na Fou…Price Chopper's Golub…Reid Lillian Charitab…Mount Laurel Foundati…Stratton Mountain & V…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT37.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Orvis Charitable Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Northshire Day School — 39% of income from government
  • The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
  • Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
  • Vna & Hospice of the Southwest Region Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Southwestern Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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

Source object · view filing

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