Virginia · Nonprofit
HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,688 to it, the largest being BEAZLEY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $175k
What Hoffler Creek Wildlife Foundation Incorporated does
Mission
Environmental education & habitat conservation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Environmental Education and Outreach: Consistent with its educational mission, HCWF provided structured and informal learning opportunities for a diverse audience, including K-12 schools, college groups, adult nature-enthusiasts, and community volunteers. Key accomplishments: A. Hosted monthly guided hikes, kayak paddles, bird watching tours, and mindfulness in nature sessions, reaching hundreds of participants. B. Delivered curriculum-linked field trips and outreach programs focusing on estuarine ecology, watershed science, butterfly life cycles, and Chesapeake Bay restoration themes, educating students from local schools. C. Expanded public outreach via digital newsletters, citizen science opportunities (bird counts, water-quality monitoring) and special events to raise awareness of human-nature connections in the Hampton Roads region. HCWF's success depends on collaboration with volunteers, local schools, higher-education institutions, municipal agencies and citizen groups. Over the year: A. The Foundation mobilized over 2,000 community members, volunteers and interns in work-days, citizen-science events and outreach programs. B. Formed or strengthened partnerships with nearby…
$46,763 spent38% of program spendingConservation and Research: HCWF manages a 142-acre nature preserve in Portsmouth, VA, which comprises tidal creek and salt-marsh habitats, riparian forest, and a brackish lake-an unusually diverse set of ecosystems in the mid-Atlantic coastal plain. During the reporting year, the Foundation: A. Continued invasive species removal efforts and native habitat restoration through regular volunteer workdays, engaging hundreds of volunteers and restoring acres of native forest. B. Maintained and improved trails, observation points and interpretive facilities, ensuring safe, low-impact public access while preserving wildlife integrity. C. Monitored water quality, raised thousands of oyster spat, and studied climate change impacts on mummichog in collaboration with regional partners to support the health of the Hoffler Creek watershed. HCWF supports applied research and monitoring that enhances understanding of coastal ecosystems, habitat change, and human and natural system interactions. Highlights include: A. Partnering with regional universities and agencies to host research in salt-marsh ecology, brackish lake habitat dynamics, tick populations, and nest predation. B. Facilitating…
$45,175 spent37% of program spendingRecreation: HCWF offers low impact recreational experiences designed to engage the community while safeguarding sensitive habitats. During the year, the Foundation: A. Maintained five hiking trails, three bird-viewing blinds, seasonal kayak rental access, an oyster pier, and observation decks that overlook marsh and lake habitats. B. Welcomed thousands of visitors to the preserve (open Tue-Sun, 10 am-4 pm), offering opportunities for nature photography, bird watching, family exploration, and passive recreation in a suburban wilderness. C. Continued to enforce preservation-friendly practices (for example, excluding pets, restraint of high-impact activities such as biking or running within the preserve) to ensure that recreation remains compatible with conservation goals.
$29,837 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $121,775.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $136k to $177k (+30%).
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.
89% of HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ashley Morgan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $15k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’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
HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 66% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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
70% of HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
- HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,688 to it, the largest being BEAZLEY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $55,688 in grants to HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
- BEAZLEY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOFFLER CREEK WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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