Virginia · Nonprofit
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,004,973 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT ($5,209,406). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $14M
What James River Association does
Mission
The mission of the James River Association is to be guardian of the james river. We provide a voice for the river and take action to promote conservation and responsible stewardship of its natural resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Conservation and preservation of virginia's james river, including river advocacy, education and outreach, the james riverkeeper activity, and watershed restoration.
$5,311,422 spent$381,632 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,311,422.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $6.2M to $10M (+69%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% · 2024 34% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION’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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Andrea Erda
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $509k → $2.4M.
15 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 funders by total. 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
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 52% · 2019 53% · 2020 40% · 2021 28% · 2022 19% · 2023 29% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
75% of JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.0M
- Department of Commerce$900k
- Environmental Protection Agency$98k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: 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 JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION?
- JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,004,973 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT ($5,209,406). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $26,004,973 in grants to JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION?
- VIRGINIA ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $5,209,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 111 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