Virginia · Nonprofit
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $798,544 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($390,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $393k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $799k
- Net assets
- $894k
What Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy does
Mission
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy inspires, motivates, and engages people to protect, preserve, and restore wildlife habitat in Loudoun County, Virginia.We accomplish our mission through our advocacy, education, citizen science, and habitat conservation programs. Our programs protect and restore wildlife habitat in Loudoun County; serve as a knowledge leader and partner for wildlife stewardship; inspire and engage people to become involved in the natural world; advocate for the advancement of wildlife and habitat conservation; and increase our capacity to fulfill the demands of our mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education is the heart of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy's mission, and we offer hundreds of free educational programs and events each year to the community, including field trips, nature walks, lectures, and hands-on educational outreach. Our varied programs and events provide a rich source of information on local wildlife habitat sustainability and other vital environmental issues affecting Loudoun County. The quality of our programs and field trips is enhanced through community partnerships that provide access to properties for our events and occasionally speakers for our programs. Our Peterson Young Naturalist Program is our main "formal" education offering, a partnership with Loudoun County Public Schools. The Peterson Program trains teachers to implement nature journaling in an outdoor classroom environment, connecting thousands of K-12 students each year (including many in Title 1 schools) to the proven educational and personal benefits of outdoor learning. Our Eagle Cam program, a partnership with the Dulles Greenway, also reaches students and others around the world by providing an inside look at the lives of Bald Eagles through two live-stream cameras inconspicuously…
$210,963 spentof which $1,500 as grants$5,328 earned by the program83% of program spendingJK Black Oak is an 89-acre, globally rare wetlands in Lucketts, Va., owned and managed by Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy. Our vision is to forever preserve and enhance its sensitive vernal pools, unique geologic setting, and the rich amphibian and wildlife populations that currently thrive there. Additionally, Loudoun Wildlife seeks to manage the property as a model and for the conservation of adjacent lands while creating an ecologically significant sanctuary for the conservation and study of native flora and fauna. JK Black Oak is managed by volunteers in accordance with our management plan, and this program collaborates and contributes to many of our other programs.
$26,346 spent10% of program spendingOur habitat conservation efforts protect, preserve, and restore habitat areas for our wild plants and wildlife. These efforts include restoration projects in various areas of the county, which often involve the removal of invasive plants to protect a specific area of habitat. Two specific volunteer projects are the Harrison Street Meadow at the Leesburg W&OD trail and Ball's Bluff Save the Bluebells Garlic Mustard Pull. Through our Wildlife Sanctuary Certification Program -- a partnership with the Northern Virginia Bird Alliance --trained volunteers provide on-site consultation to help property owners establish and nurture sustainable natural habitat in homes, schools, churches, parks, and more. Participants work toward official certification of their property as a "Wildlife Sanctuary." In addition, we offer two Native Plant Sales annually to educate the community and make native plants readily available to the community, and we actively participate in the Plant NOVA Natives marketing campaign.
$9,461 spentof which $250 as grants4% of program spendingOur habitat conservation efforts protect, preserve, and restore habitat areas for our wild plants and wildlife. These efforts include restoration projects in various areas of the county, which often involve the removal of invasive plants to protect a specific area of habitat. Two specific volunteer projects are the Harrison Street Meadow at the Leesburg W&OD trail and Ball's Bluff Save the Bluebells Garlic Mustard Pull. Through our Wildlife Sanctuary Certification Program -- a partnership with the Northern Virginia Bird Alliance --trained volunteers provide on-site consultation to help property owners establish and nurture sustainable natural habitat in homes, schools, churches, parks, and more. Participants work toward official certification of their property as a "Wildlife Sanctuary." In addition, we offer two Native Plant Sales annually to educate the community and make native plants readily available to the community, and we actively participate in the Plant NOVA Natives marketing campaign.
$7,845 spent$9,132 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $254,615.
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 2019 to 2020, from $229k to $641k (+180%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 15% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 6 funders, grant income rose $500 → $27k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy’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
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 50% · 2020 91% · 2021 66% · 2022 80% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“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
20% of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
95% of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy'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 $37k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $761k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy: 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 Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy?
- Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy (Virginia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $798,544 to it, the largest being THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ($390,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $798,544 in grants to Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy?
- THE NATURE CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $390,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy 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 17 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