How much did The Orvis Charitable Foundation grant in FY2024?

Environment$347kAnimals$200kHealth$60kEducation$57kRecreation & Sports$21kArts & Culture$7kYouth Development$6kFood & Nutrition$500Housing & Shelter$100Other$245k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

—

2020

—

2021

troutconservation

2022

waternorthshiretheodore rooseveltroosevelt conservationconservation partnershiphumane

2023

arlington artsarts enrichmentgreen mountaingivebacksusan komenkomen breastbreast cancer

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k33 grants · $90k
$10k–50k4 grants · $75k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC$60,000
TROUT UNLIMITED INC$30,000
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC$25,000
RIVERS OF RECOVERY INC$10,000
PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATE$9,500
ARLINGTON ARTS ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC$5,000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC$5,000
AS GOOD AS GOLD-GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF ILLINOI$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER$5,000
RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$5,000
FRIENDS OF FLETCHERS COVE$5,000
PROTECT OUR RIVERS$5,000
ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION INC$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER$5,000

02The need

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 (FY21–21, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$666k · 28 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$666k

$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+41%

Still filing today

82%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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
5× · 2020–2024 · $172k · revenue +130%
TU
TROUT UNLIMITED INC
3× · 2019–2023 · $90k · revenue +56%
PF
PETFINDER FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +4%

Funded once

TU
TROUT UNLIMITED INC
one grant, 2021 · $105k
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +59%
UM
UPPER MISSOURI WATERKEEPER INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +1435%

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.

The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect and restore rivers for people and wildlife. conservation work addresses flood resilience and outdoor recreation.

Human Services

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

Wentworth Watershed Association

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

Environment

Western Rivers Conservancy

Protection of outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states.

Environment

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

Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust

Conservation & education - The benefit and enjoyment of the general public, to promote the preservation and conservation of the natural, cultural, and historic resources of the Damariscotta-Pemaquid Region, research and scientific study,…

Environment

Merrimack River Watershed Council Inc

Merrimack river watershed council inc.'s mission is to improve and conserve the merrimack river watershed for people and wildlife through advocacy, education, recreation and science.

Environment

The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

To restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek

Environment

Russian Riverkeeper

The Russian Riverkeeper protectsand restores our watershed environmentfor the benefit of current and futuregenerations.

Environment

Vermont Riverlands Llc

To acquire and manage conserved lands along the waters of vermont.

Environment

30 Mile River Watershed Association

The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed.

Environment

Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and working landscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation, stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for community…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit and the most unlike its peers is The Michael J Fox Foundation. 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.

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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/68

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,497

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.

05the grantee network

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/61

Grantees still filing

54/61

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$347,284Other$251,652Animals$200,300Health$60,356Education$56,600Recreation & Sports$20,680Arts & Culture$7,250

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

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 FoundationVT26.8× affinity12 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 · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Seventh Generation Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF FLETCHERS COVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 921168513 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF FLETCHERS COVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 34% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Orvis Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Orvis Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Orvis Charitable Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Orvis Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph

The Orvis Charitable Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Orvis Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph