· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| JAMES RIVER WOMEN | $10,000 |
| BACKWOODS WARRIORS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BEYOND BOUNDARIES | $10,000 |
| BAT CONSERVATION AND RESCUE OF VA | $10,000 |
| SHENANDOAH REEL WOMEN | $10,000 |
| REEL CONNECTIONS FOR KIDS INC | $10,000 |
| SKYLINE MIDDLE SCHOOL | $5,250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- THTHE HUMBLE HUSTLE COMPANY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $36k · revenue +37%
- BBBEYOND BOUNDARIES3× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +538%
- DWDelta Waterfowl Foundation2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- VDVA DEPT OF GAME & INLAND FISHERIESone grant, 2018 · $50k
- GSGirl Scout Council of the Nation's Capitalone grant, 2022 · $19k · revenue -16%
- CICAMP25 INCone grant, 2023 · $17k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 dan river basin association preserves and promotes the natural and cultural resources of the dan river basin through recreation, education, and stewardship.
The mission of the green mountain club is to make the vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people by protecting and maintaining the long trail system and fostering, through education, the stewardship of vermont's hiking…
Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
To restore, protect and promote the Herring Run stream valley as a place where nature and neighbors thrive.
White Pine Programs' mission is to host shared outdoor experiences that awaken curiosity, build personal resilience, and cultivate caring relationships with self, community, and the natural world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildrock Inc and the most unlike its peers is Valor Ranch. 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.
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 16 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 43 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE HUMBLE HUSTLE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BOUNDARIES ↗
- Who funds FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER OUTDOOR COALITION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NORTH FORK OF THE SHENANDOAH RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Valor Ranch ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital ↗
- Who funds BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 596 TIDEWATER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST 4-H EDUCATIONAL CTR INC ↗
- Who funds HENRICO POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARCHERY IN SCHOOLS PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Albemarle Foundation For Education ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER WOMEN ↗
- Who funds WILDROCK INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERDUN ADVENTURE BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SWVA SPORTSMEN INC ↗
- Who funds TRAILS FOR YOUTH ORG ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization 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.
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.