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Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc
Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,758 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($106,727). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $125k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc does
Mission
To establish a unique Lewis & Clark exploratory center for scientific and educational purposes, open to and for the benefit of the public with focus on the conception, origin and legacy of the Lewis & Clark expedition.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024 we continued serving small and medium groups but not large groups, in order to protect the health and well-being of our employees. We served public, private, and homeschool groups and taught them about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and its local roots. We gave tours to adult groups and tourists from both in-state and out-of-state.We ran outdoor arts programs for visitors of all ages related to exploration, such as journaling based on the Lewis and Clark journals and photography that connects historical exploration with modern skills. We continued research and exhibition planning for an expanded interpretation of York, the enslaved member of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. We worked on watershed issues in partnership with other area nonprofits and presented student-made watershed videos created on field trips to the Exploratory Center. We continued to write for the Thomas Jefferson Planning District watershed newsletter.In 2024 we implemented the school lesson plan and interactive art exhibition developed for the City of Charlottesvilles Sister Cities Commission. We made presentations on York to other organizations, such as the United Way, and we researched and published…
$63,327 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $63,327.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.8M to $1.7M (−5%).
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: 2018 3% · 2021 24% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $10k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc’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
Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
92% 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 Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
86% of Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k 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
Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc
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
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc?
- Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,758 to it, the largest being CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($106,727). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $124,758 in grants to Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc?
- CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $106,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center of Virginia Inc 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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