Virginia · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK
FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,000 to it, the largest being ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY WILLIAMS ATWELL FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Friends of Bellemeade Park does
Mission
To inspire young learners educators and families to discover the joys of learning together in nature
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
added programming to serve elementary-aged students in Richmond Public Schools
$40,000 spent34% of program spendingadded summer programming and programming dedicated to neighboring school and added native habitat features
$76,935 spent66% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $116,935.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $40k to $40k (−0%).
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 FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK’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
FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK: 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 FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK?
- FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,000 to it, the largest being ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY WILLIAMS ATWELL FOUNDATION ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $48,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK?
- ROBERT LEROY ATWELL AND LUCY WILLIAMS ATWELL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF BELLEMEADE PARK 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 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing