Virginia · Public charity
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…
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 35
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $2.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $29,119
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $478,669
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 37
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 4
- Total assets, FY2026
- $33M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 19% of the organizations Virginia Environmental Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 34 | $2.0M | 15% |
| FY2025 | 37 | $2.6M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $1.4M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $2.7M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $2.2M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.9M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $4.0M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $4.9M | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| James River Association | $5,209,406 | 10 | 60% |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc | $1,944,769 | 6 | 4% |
| Trout Unlimited Inc | $1,573,550 | 5 | 1% |
| Sustainable Chesapeake | $925,655 | 5 | 42% |
| Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation | $800,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Commonwealth of Va | $750,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $701,408 | 1 | 0% |
| Colonial Soil and Water Conservation District | $640,000 | 1 | n/a |
| James City County | $540,893 | 1 | n/a |
| Wetlands Watch Inc | $389,456 | 7 | 27% |
Show all 90 grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Virginia Environmental Endowment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Virginia Environmental Endowment
- How much does Virginia Environmental Endowment give?
- Virginia Environmental Endowment reported 35 itemized grants totaling $1,969,897, out of $2,286,799 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Virginia Environmental Endowment fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Environment (90%), Food & Nutrition (3%), Animals (2%).
- Who are Virginia Environmental Endowment's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: James River Association ($5.2M), Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc ($1.9M), Trout Unlimited Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Virginia Environmental Endowment fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Environmental Endowment?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Chesapeake Bay Trust.
- Where is Virginia Environmental Endowment based?
- Virginia Environmental Endowment is based in VA.
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