Virginia · Nonprofit
LIVING EARTH SCHOOL
LIVING EARTH SCHOOL (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,725 to it, the largest being The Orphiflamme Foundation ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $921k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $180k
- Net assets
- $475k
What Living Earth School does
Mission
Living Earth Schools mission is to nurture healthy connections to nature, self, and community through immersive, nature-based education and mentoring experiences for children, teens and adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Year Round Youth Nature Connection and Leadership Programs Living Earth School provides year-round, nature-based education programs that serve youth ages 5 -18 through homeschool programs, weekend offerings, summer camps, and teen mentorship programs, serving approximately 1,100 young people annually. These programs are designed to build resilience, confidence, environmental literacy, and social-emotional skills through immersive outdoor experiences and mentoring relationships. Across programs youth participants demonstrate measurable growth in independence, confidence, and connection to the natural world. Parents report that youth demonstrate increased resilience, including the ability to navigate physical and social challenges and that participants return from programs more calm, grounded, and confident.
$76,280 spent$193,197 earned by the program15% of program spendingLiving Earth School is best known for its outdoor education summer camps for children and teens. Through immersive experiences in nature, participants learn earth-based skills such as wilderness awareness, fire-making, shelter building, tracking, and natural crafts while developing confidence, resilience, leadership, and a strong sense of community. Guided by skilled mentors, campers deepen their connection to themselves, others, and the natural world. Families report increased self-confidence, social skills, independence, and appreciation for nature. Scholarships help ensure that youth from all backgrounds can participate regardless of financial circumstances.
$322,320 spent$419,702 earned by the program62% of program spendingLiving Earth Schools Teen Apprentice Program is a multi-year mentoring and leadership program for teens ages 1318. Through immersive outdoor experiences, participants develop advanced earth-based skills such as wilderness survival, tracking, traditional crafts, and leadership. Guided by skilled mentors, teens build confidence, resilience, responsibility, and a strong sense of belonging while deepening their connection to themselves, others, and the natural world. Participants gain practical life skills, increased self-awareness, and meaningful leadership experience. Scholarships help ensure that teens from all backgrounds can participate regardless of financial circumstances.
$46,016 spent$95,981 earned by the program9% of program spendingMiscellaneous educational programs (see schedule o)
$73,497 spent$82,524 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $518,113.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $274k to $348k (+27%).
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.
13% of LIVING EARTH SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Hub Knott
Executive director
Board chair
Valerie Goodman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $27k → $66k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LIVING EARTH SCHOOL’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
LIVING EARTH SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 73%; 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: 2022 56% · 2023 76% — 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.
Where its funders are
LIVING EARTH SCHOOL draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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
LIVING EARTH SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIVING EARTH SCHOOL
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVING EARTH SCHOOL: 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 LIVING EARTH SCHOOL?
- LIVING EARTH SCHOOL (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $179,725 to it, the largest being The Orphiflamme Foundation ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVING EARTH SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $179,725 in grants to LIVING EARTH SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING EARTH SCHOOL?
- The Orphiflamme Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING EARTH SCHOOL 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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