Virginia · Nonprofit
Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,273 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($342,773). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $460k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $384k
- Net assets
- $225k
What Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge does
Mission
The mission of the Friends of the GDSNWR Organization is to promote a better understanding and appreciation for the natural environment of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge by enhancing public awareness and interest and by encouraging people to visit the Refuge to share in its environmental and educational programs
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Successfully Conducted an intensive Intern program focusing on STEAM Curriculum topics involved at the Great Dismal Swamp. Successfully conducted several 4th grade field trips from the Suffolk City Public Schools instructing students about the ecosystem and history of the Great Dismal Swamp. Purchase a house and land directly adjacent to the refuge to protect it from commercial development
$244,562 spent$459,614 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $244,562.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $27k to $267k (+879%).
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 the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $40k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge’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 the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
89% 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 the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 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
Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
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 the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: 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 the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge?
- Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,273 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($342,773). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $384,273 in grants to Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $342,773 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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