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Virginia Environmental Endowment

The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality, restore the chesapeake bay, conserve natural resources, promote environmental literacy and public…

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$890k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$19MFood & Nutrition$640kAnimals$500kEducation$344kHealth$300kYouth Development$125kRecreation & Sports$117kPublic Benefit$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $502k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $760k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION$889,700
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$406,302
TROUT UNLIMITED$196,095
THE MOUNTAIN LAKE CONSERVANCY$95,939
SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE$89,517
NATURE FORWARD$80,000
NEW RIVER CONSERVANCY$76,261
CAPITAL REGION LAND$60,000
WETLANDS WATCH$59,402
RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$52,500
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$50,000
APPALACHIAN CONSERVATION CORPS$42,400
VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK$40,000
ALLIANCE FOR THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY$30,000
VIRGINIA'S UNITED LAND TRUSTS$30,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DUCKS UNLIMITED: $701k → 9%NEW RIVER CONSERVANCY: $76k → 14%WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION: $215k → 18%VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS: $178k → 5%TROUT UNLIMITED: $755k → 7%KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF ROANOKE: $50k → 8%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $50k → 8%JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $1.5M → 9%APPALACHIAN CONSERVATION CORPS: $192k → 11%CITY OF HOPEWELL STORMWATER PROGRAM: $261k → 11%THE MOUNTAIN LAKE CONSERVANCY: $107k → 12%WETLANDS WATCH: $226k → 19%WESTERN VIRGINIA WATER AUTHORITY: $137k → 20%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 22%WATERSHED WATCH IN KENTUCKY: $150k → 13%WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION: $80k → 18%TROUT UNLIMITED: $480k → 7%ROANOKE COLLEGE: $89k → 8%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $40k → 8%JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $1.0M → 9%APPALACHIAN CONSERVATION CORPS: $42k → 11%THE MOUNTAIN LAKE CONSERVANCY: $96k → 12%WETLANDS WATCH: $59k → 19%BLUE RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY: $73k → 20%JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $890k → 22%TROUT UNLIMITED: $196k → 7%JAMES CITY COUNTY: $782k → 7%JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $630k → 9%JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $539k → 22%TROUT UNLIMITED: $132k → 7%COLONIAL SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $640k → 7%VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION: $500k → 22%JAMES CITY COUNTY: $396k → 7%CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION: $406k → 22%JAMES CITY COUNTY: $295k → 7%VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH: $300k → 22%NATURE FORWARD: $80k → 8%COLONIAL SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION- DIV OF COMM OF VA: $151k → 7%CAPITAL REGION LAND: $60k → 22%NATURE FORWARD FORMERLY AUDUBON NATURALIST SOCIETY: $50k → 8%CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY: $50k → 22%LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN: $315k → 9%SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE: $554k → 22%SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE: $238k → 22%VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY: $750k → 8%SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE: $90k → 22%RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $53k → 8%VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY: $90k → 8%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

PA
KY
WV
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 28% of Virginia Environmental Endowment’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 70% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Virginia Environmental Endowmentlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 54 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
33

Total granted

$17M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+28%

Still filing today

85%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • JR
    JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +234% · 60% of their budget
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +53%
  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • CO
    COMMONWEALTH OF VA
    one grant, 2019 · $750k
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $701k · revenue +105%
  • CS
    COLONIAL SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $640k

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 Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
2
Virginia Environmental Endowment

The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…

Environment
3
Essex County Conservation Alliance

Preservation of essex county virginia's rural characteristics, its scenic lands, natural resources, and historic structures.

Environment
4
Wild Virginia Incorporated

Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.

Environment
5
West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation

To promote sustainable economic development by facilitating reuse of commercial, industrial, and mining sites and providing long-term management of key risks from legacy environmental concerns.

Community Improvement
6
The Rockbridge Area Conservation Council

The mission of the rockbridge area conservation council (rockbridge conservation or rc) is to promote and enhance the protection, sustainable use, and stewardship of our community's natural and cultural resources.

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7
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
8
Vermont Riverlands Llc

To protect and enhance the natural resources of vermont in order to promote the well-being of present and future generations of vermonters and visitors; preserve and aid in the preservation of open land along rivers and lakes; protect and…

Environment
9
Conserving Carolina

To protect, restore, and inspire appreciation of the natural world.

Environment
10
Virginia Forestry Association

Vfa promotes stewardship and wise use of the commonwealth's forest resources for the economic and environmental benefits of all virginians.

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11
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy

Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy inspires, motivates, and engages people to protect, preserve, and restore wildlife habitat in Loudoun County, Virginia.We accomplish our mission through our advocacy, education, citizen science, and habitat…

Animals
12
The James River Basin Partnership

To improve and protect the water quality in the james river watershed and table rock lake.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New River Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Christian Youth CampsImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and Advocacy
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr14%31%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr15%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr15%56%35–55yr15%19%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/86
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,382

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

74 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. 74 of the 95 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/74
Grantees still filing
52/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $4,730,737 · EnvironmentJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATIONCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $1,614,132 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INCDucks Unlimited Inc — $701,408 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc+41 more — $4,338,903 · Environment+41 moreIndividual grant recipient — $1,177,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION — $800,000 · OtherVIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVAT…COMMONWEALTH OF VA — $750,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH OF VACOLONIAL SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT — $640,000 · OtherCOLONIAL SOIL AND WATER CONSERVA…JAMES CITY COUNTY — $540,893 · OtherJAMES CITY COUNTYSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $325,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTE…CITY OF HOPEWELL STORMWATER PROGRAM — $261,203 · OtherWATERSHED WATCH IN KENTUCKY — $203,650 · OtherTHE MOUNTAIN LAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $202,914 · Other+26 more — $982,835 · Other+26 moreTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $1,573,550 · Animals+1 more — $10,000 · AnimalsSUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE — $905,655 · Public BenefitWILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $217,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION — $116,500 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGE — $104,621 · EducationVirginia Association for Environmental Education — $21,500 · Education+2 more — $23,500 · EducationCONSERVATION LEGACY — $234,400 · Youth DevelopmentBLUE SKY FUND — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentALLIANCE FOR THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY — $57,000 · Community ImprovementKiwanis Foundation of Roanoke — $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE LIVING RIVER RESTORATION TRUST — $40,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK FAMILY LAND TRUST INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$11,385,180Other$5,884,395Animals$1,583,550Public Benefit$905,655Education$483,621Youth Development$384,400Community Improvement$172,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $4,730,737 over 9y, 60% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $1,614,132 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $1,573,550 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE — $905,655 over 4y, 42% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $701,408 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC — $355,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetWETLANDS WATCH INC — $349,456 over 6y, 27% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $325,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $315,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNEW RIVER LAND TRUST — $277,446 over 3y, 24% of budgetVIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK — $239,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetVA ASSOCIATION OF SOIL & WATER CONSERV DISTRICTS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $237,323 over 5y, 76% of budgetCONSERVATION LEGACY — $234,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $218,000 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetWILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $217,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $201,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetNature Forward — $182,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC — $165,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $162,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE SKY FUND — $150,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetVIRGINIAS UNITED LAND TRUSTS — $150,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetSHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST — $150,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetLAND SAVERS UNITED — $136,796 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $133,650 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION — $116,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK — $106,750 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE — $104,621 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $97,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetVIRGINIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE — $93,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetNew River Conservancy — $85,830 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNorthern Virginia Conservation Trust — $81,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST OF VIRGINIA INC — $74,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $68,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPotomac Riverkeeper Network — $68,300 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWATERKEEPERS CHESAPEAKE INC — $57,500 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY — $57,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKiwanis Foundation of Roanoke — $50,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOWER APPOMATTOX RIVER — $50,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetEver Green Team — $46,250 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE MARINERS' MUSEUM — $42,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIVING RIVER RESTORATION TRUST — $40,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetVALLEY CONSERVATION COUNCIL — $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $34,050 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRIDGE TO REEFS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER TENNESSEE RIVER ROUNDTABLE — $28,569 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC — $26,938 over 2y, 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 JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds WETLANDS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW RIVER LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds VA ASSOCIATION OF SOIL & WATER CONSERV DISTRICTS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
  • Who funds RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM & MARY LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNTAIN LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Nature Forward ↗
  • Who funds BAY JOURNAL MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE SKY FUND ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIAS UNITED LAND TRUSTS ↗
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗
  • Who funds LAND SAVERS UNITED ↗
  • Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds New River Conservancy ↗

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 Fish and Wil…Dominion Energy Chari…Chesapeake Bay TrustVirginias United Land…The Keith Campbell Fo…The Oak Hill FundThe Community Foundat…The Nature ConservancyLand Trust Alliance I…Charlottesville Area …Agua FundincThe Conservation Fund…
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC41.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Virginias United Land Trusts · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Oak Hill Fund · The Community Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Agua Fundinc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation

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 Virginia Environmental Endowment 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Defensores De La Cuenca — 100% of income from government
  • Ridge to Reefs Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
  • Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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: 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Virginia Environmental Endowment?

Find your warmest path to Virginia Environmental Endowment 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 95 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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