How much did THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA grant in FY2024?

THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA reported 13 grants totaling $173,135 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA based?

THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA is based in VA.

THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA

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· Public charity

THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA

THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA (wfv) is dedicated to conserving land, providing public access and outdoor recreation by strengthening the commitment of the commonwealth's sportsmen to the future of outdoor recreation.

$173k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$23k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2018

—

2019

archery

2021

education

2022

learninglynchburgfacilitiessafetyconservationshooting archerygood

2023

campprotectingnaturalspacesyouthwaterfowlpark

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

03FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k12 grants · $168k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

FERRUM COLLEGE$23,090
VALOR RANCH$19,570
BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE$18,573
THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF UVA$18,100
BOY SCOUTS OF VA TIDEWATER COUNCIL$16,892
HENRICO COUNTY PARKS AND REC$11,660
SHENANDOAH REEL WOMEN$10,000
REEL CONNECTIONS FOR KIDS INC$10,000
BEYOND BOUNDARIES$10,000
BACKWOODS WARRIORS FOUNDATION$10,000
BAT CONSERVATION AND RESCUE OF VA$10,000
JAMES RIVER WOMEN$10,000
SKYLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL$5,250

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 (FY21–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$211k · 9 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$211k

$264k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+79%

Still filing today

67%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsHealthAnimalsOther

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

TH
THE HUMBLE HUSTLE COMPANY
2× · 2022–2023 · $36k · revenue +18%
BB
BEYOND BOUNDARIES
3× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +1161%
JR
JAMES RIVER OUTDOOR COALITION
2× · 2022–2023 · $22k · revenue +9%

Funded once

VD
VA DEPT OF GAME & INLAND FISHERIES
one grant, 2018 · $50k
GS
GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL - NATION'S CAPITgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $19k · revenue +26%
C
CAMP25
one grant, 2023 · $17k

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.

Virginia Outdoor Adventure Inc

Youth Development

Virginia Zoological Society

The virginia zoological society inc (the "society") exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. organized on september 21, 1979, its purpose is to act as an advisory and supportive organization to…

Animals

Rivers & Lands Conservancy

Rivers & Lands Conservancy connects our community to natural, wild, and open spaces of Southern California through land conservation, stewardship and education.

Environment

Virginia State Golf Association

The mission of the virginia state golf association is to promote the game of golf and serve the needs of golf in virginia.

Recreation & Sports

Harrisburg Hunters & Anglers

Wildlife conservation; hunter safety; marksmanship practice and competition; youth education; and educational training.

Recreation & Sports

Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage Inc

The entity restores, manages, and protects habitat to increase wildlife habitat and improvewater quality.

Environment

Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure

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Sweet Briar Institute

Sweet briar college challenges and inspires women, forging ethical leaders with the skill, compassion, and vision to create a more just and sustainable world. sweet briar's academic program, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, seeks…

Education

Floyds Fork Conservancy Inc

Environment

South Fork Natural History Society

Provide a natural history and anthropological museum, outdoor and indoor natural history classrooms and nature trails.

Environment

Virginia Rural Water Association Inc

To provide training and technical assisstance to water and wastewater utility providers throughout the state of Virginia through a variety of programs funded mostly by Federal grants.

Public Benefit

Susquehanna University

Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast 4-H Educational Ctr Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hampden-Sydney College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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%0/42

the rest of the field

11%

5,477/50,426

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

23 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)

22/23

Grantees still filing

18/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$269,320Youth Development$93,473Environment$77,615Education$59,810Health$55,105Human Services$34,500Recreation & Sports$28,500Animals$19,506

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.

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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 WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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. 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: BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

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 4.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842825026 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 BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, 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 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 47% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

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Find your warmest path to The Wildlife Foundation of Virginia 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 WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA

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

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wildlife Foundation of Virginia?

More from the funding graph

THE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF VIRGINIA

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

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wildlife Foundation of Virginia?

More from the funding graph