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The Piedmont Environmental Council

Protect and restore the lands and waters of the virginia piedmont, while building stronger, more sustainable communities.

$110k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$51k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$12,985
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Piedmont Environmental Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$51k75%
FY20232$37k50%
FY20224$72k75%
FY20212$25k100%
FY20201$15k100%
FY20193$44k67%
FY20187$601k86%
FY20172$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$599kFood & Nutrition$79kRecreation & Sports$71kCommunity Improvement$52kEmployment$31kScience & Tech$20kReligion$13kAnimals$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Piedmont Foundation$400,000132%
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley$93,4411n/a
Town of Gordonsville$57,2503n/a
4p Foods Inc$50,0002n/a
Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District$50,0001n/a
Rappu Inc$30,80028%
Fauquier County Government$30,0001n/a
Rapp Flow$19,9941n/a
Sperryville Community Foundation$19,500134%
Rappahannock County Park Foundation$16,3831n/a
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of The Piedmont Environmental Council by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Piedmont Foundation$400,000132%
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley$93,4411n/a
Town of Gordonsville$57,2503n/a
4p Foods Inc$50,0002n/a
Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District$50,0001n/a
Rappu Inc$30,80028%
Fauquier County Government$30,0001n/a
Rapp Flow$19,9941n/a
Sperryville Community Foundation$19,500134%
Rappahannock County Park Foundation$16,3831n/a
American Climate Partners$15,00014%
Learning Tree Farm LLC$12,9851n/a
Rappahannock League For$12,7022n/a
Virginias United Land Trusts$12,500112%
The Montana Land Reliance$10,0001n/a
Eldon Farms$8,5401n/a
Jvs Farm Investments LLC$7,0001n/a
Lakota Ranch$6,3001n/a
Virginia Conservation Network$5,00011%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

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.

Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path FoundationVA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · 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.

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About The Piedmont Environmental Council

How much does The Piedmont Environmental Council give?
The Piedmont Environmental Council reported 4 itemized grants totaling $51,285, out of $109,911 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Piedmont Environmental Council fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (69%), Food & Nutrition (9%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
Who are The Piedmont Environmental Council's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Piedmont Foundation ($400k), Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley ($93k), Town of Gordonsville ($57k).
Does The Piedmont Environmental Council fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Piedmont Environmental Council?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation, Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Piedmont Environmental Council based?
The Piedmont Environmental Council is based in VA.

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 20 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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