Virginia · Nonprofit
BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY
BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,928 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $168k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $119k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Society does
Mission
Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Society is the primary partner and Friends group of the the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The Society was formed in 2020 as an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System. Our purpose is to promote and support the BBNWR in it's mission to conserve, protect and enhance natural resources through projects, advocacy, outreach, education, fundraising, diverse membership and volunteerism for the betterment of the Refuge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Monarch and Pollinator gardens. Volunteer labor is utilized to maintain a beneficial native pollinator garden that is functional environmentally and educational for visitors. Maintenance and continued development benefit between 115k and 215k annual visitors to the refuge.
$1,257 spent3% of program spendingOutdoor Classroom planning, design and regulatory preparation for construction started in 2025. The classroom's function will be to host outdoor events and environmental education activities. Upon completion, anticipating more than 2,000 annual school trip visitors annually.
$42,914 spent96% of program spendingRefuge trail and facilities maintenance including wayfinding signage and informational kiosks. Maintenance of sheds protects Refuge equipment and supplies. Photo chronolog records conditions at set locations over time. These efforts are volunteer time and labor. Trails and signage are utilized by between 115k and 215k annual visitors to the refuge.
$673 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,844.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $52k to $175k (+233%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Chris Freeman
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $22 → $333.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,606 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,606 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY?
- BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,928 to it, the largest being HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $118,928 in grants to BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY?
- HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACK BAY NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing