How much does Veverka Family Foundation give?

Veverka Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $280,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Veverka Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (70%), Education (12%), Arts & Culture (10%).

Who are Veverka Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Park Foundation ($244k), Nature Forward ($233k), Sultana Education Foundation Inc ($221k).

Does Veverka Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Veverka Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Veverka Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Park Foundation, Chesapeake Bay Trust, Patagoniaorg.

Where is Veverka Family Foundation based?

Veverka Family Foundation is based in MD.

Veverka Family Foundation

Veverka Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $22k
$10k–50k10 grants · $258k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Sultana Education Foundation	$35,000
Nature Forward	$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
Victory Academy	$2,000
International Crane Fndn	$2,000
North Central Washington Audubon Society	$1,100

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 51 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

NP
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $244k · revenue +114%
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
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $5k
GO
Girls on the Run MOCO
one grant, 2023 · $5k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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

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

Wild Whatcom

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

Education

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

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.

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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

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

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

Wasatch Mountain Institute

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

Education

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

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

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naturebridge; 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.

04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/48

Grantees still filing

37/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$777,751Other$735,387Arts & Culture$250,625Recreation & Sports$37,500Education$23,100Animals$13,500Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Veverka Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Veverka Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home