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Veverka Family 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.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$1.3MEducation$216kArts & Culture$185kRecreation & Sports$27kYouth Development$27kAnimals$24kHealth$18kPhilanthropy$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $258k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nature Forward$35,000
Sultana Education Foundation$35,000
Anacostia Watershed Society$32,000
Howard County Conservancy$30,000
Phillips Wharf Environmental Ctr$30,000
Alice Ferguson Fndn$28,571
National Park Foundation$25,000
Washington County Public Schools$22,000
Ironwood Tree Experience$10,900
Horizons of Kent County$10,000
Blue Swallow Farm Foundation$6,600
Garden School Foundation$6,429
International Crane Fndn$2,000
Victory Academy$2,000
North Central Washington Audubon Society$1,100
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 (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 10%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $500 → 17%Children's Cabinet: $500 → 10%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $500 → 17%Children's Cabinet: $500 → 10%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
WA
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MN
WI
MI
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MA
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CA
VA
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GA
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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 51 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
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Total granted

$1.8M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+31%

Still filing today

71%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationOther

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

  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $244k · revenue +238%
  • SE
    SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +34%
  • AW
    ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $149k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • YP
    YELLOWSTONE PARK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • GO
    Girls on the Run MOCO
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

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 Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.

Environment
2
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
3
Wild Whatcom

Wild Whatcom's mission is to foster lifelong connections with nature and community through outdoor exploration and service.

Education
4
The Wildlands Conservancy

The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.

Environment
5
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

6
Irvine Natural Science Center Inc

We all thrive outdoors. we encourage lifelong engagement with the natural world through environmental learning and green living. at irvine, we inspire people to explore, respect and protect nature.

Environment
7
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
8
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
9
Wasatch Mountain Institute

Wasatch mountain institute provides hands-on learning experiences through outdoor recreation at jordanelle state park.

Education
10
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
11
Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment
12
Nature for All

Nature for all builds a diverse base of support to ensure that everyone in the losangeles area has equitable access to the wide range of benefits which natureprovides. we're committed to building support to protect, create access to…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naturebridge and the most unlike its peers is Little Falls Watershed Alliance Inc. 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 backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Community Arts OrganizationsUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Child and Family ServicesLgbtq+ Community CentersChristian Youth CampsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Early Childhood Education C…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Independent K-8 Schools
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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr11%34%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr11%42%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
14%
5,903/41,796

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

48 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
37/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Nature Forward — $233,000 · EnvironmentNature ForwardANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $149,000 · EnvironmentANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INCTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC — $120,000 · EnvironmentTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INCCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $63,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INCAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc — $50,451 · EnvironmentAlice Ferguson Foundation IncRock Creek Conservancy Inc — $39,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — $35,000 · EnvironmentPhillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc — $30,000 · Environment+9 more — $58,300 · Environment+9 moreNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $243,708 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS — $155,000 · OtherWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTSWASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $86,800 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSHorizons of Kent County — $74,000 · OtherHorizons of Kent County+39 more — $175,879 · Other+39 moreSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $220,625 · Arts & CultureSULTANA EDUCATI…ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC — $28,000 · Arts & CultureROUND HOUSE THE…+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsWashington Area Bicyclist Association — $5,500 · Recreation & SportsOutdoors for all Foundation — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsVictory Academy Inc — $16,500 · EducationBlue Swallow Farm Foundation — $6,600 · EducationINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · AnimalsWASHINGTON WILD — $500 · AnimalsBlueSkies for Children Inc — $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Environment$777,751Other$735,387Arts & Culture$250,625Recreation & Sports$37,500Education$23,100Animals$13,500Human Services$5,000

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 budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $243,708 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNature Forward — $233,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $220,625 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $149,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC — $120,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $63,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc — $50,451 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc — $39,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPhillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC — $28,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $23,739 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE — $16,800 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVictory Academy Inc — $16,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBrowne Academy — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Swallow Farm Foundation — $6,600 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF COMPASS INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWashington Area Bicyclist Association — $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION NW — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBlueSkies for Children Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC — $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEIGHTH DAY FARM INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMequon Nature Preserve Inc — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaryland Assoc for Environmental & Outdoor Educati — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA TRAIL ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNO LIMITS FOUNDATION D/B/A CAMP NO LIMITS — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHELAN-DOUGLAS LAND TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE FALLS WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHAVEN — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY UNITED SERVICES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON WILD — $500 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Nature Forward
  • Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Rock Creek Conservancy Inc
  • Who funds CONSERVANCY FOR CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
  • Who funds Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc
  • Who funds GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC
  • Who funds GARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER
  • Who funds YOUTH OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE
  • Who funds Victory Academy Inc
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Browne Academy
  • Who funds NATUREBRIDGE
  • Who funds TRAILS FOR YOUTH ORG
  • Who funds Blue Swallow Farm Foundation
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF COMPASS INC
  • Who funds Washington Area Bicyclist Association
  • Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds CONSERVATION NW
  • Who funds BlueSkies for Children Inc

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.

National Park FoundationDC31.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Park Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Earthshare Chapters Inc · John G & Jean R Gosnell Foundation · The Outdoor Foundation · Nora Roberts 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 Veverka Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 21%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals67% of income from government
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc60% of income from government
  • Maryland Assoc for Environmental & Outdoor Educati35% of income from government
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc34% of income from government
  • Nature Forward32% of income from government
  • Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc21% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc15% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont13% of income from government
  • Sultana Education Foundation Inc8% of income from government
  • The Howard County Conservancy Inc5% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc5% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Veverka Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Veverka Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 73 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.

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