How much does Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc give?

Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $186,280 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Education (18%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Philosophical Research Society ($164k), Chesapeake Conservancy Inc ($95k), Virginia Outdoors Foundation ($94k).

Does Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Luminescence Foundation Inc, Dun Foundation, William M Backer Foundation Inc.

Where is Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc based?

Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc is based in DC.

Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc

Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$186k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$320kEducation$242kArts & Culture$178kSocial Science$169kRecreation & Sports$94kAnimals$92kFood & Nutrition$69kInternational$36kOther$0

02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $61k
$10k–50k8 grants · $125k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE HILL SCHOOL	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	$20,000
YALE SCHOOL OF ART	$20,000
BARD COLLEGE	$15,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$15,000
NPR	$10,000
RAPPAHANNOCK TRIBE OF VIRGINIA	$10,000
VIRGINIA OUTDOORS FOUNDATION	$10,000
BULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY	$5,000
HOSPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER	$5,000
ORION SOCIETY	$5,000
TIBET HOUSE US	$5,000
EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL	$5,000
MILLBROOK SCHOOL	$5,000
OCH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION	$5,000

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 (FY17–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 35 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+25%

Still filing today

74%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

TP
THE PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
9× · 2017–2025 · $164k · revenue +70%
CC
CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $95k · revenue +224%
Feeding America
6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +40%

Funded once

TJ
THE J A Y C FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -95%
TS
Tall Ship Providence Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
TC
THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +25%

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.

Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment

Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Parapsychology Foundation 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

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 62 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)

45/46

Grantees still filing

37/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$397,757Environment$301,500Arts & Culture$288,215Education$199,500Food & Nutrition$64,000International$51,000Philanthropy$24,500

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.

The Luminescence Foundation IncVA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Dun Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · Alexander Brady Foundation · Frank Mangano Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · MRC Full Circle Foundation · Sacharuna Foundation · McGraw Foundation · Living Springs Foundation · Wise Foundation · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc

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 Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

10report 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

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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