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MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION

MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,727 to it, the largest being THE CAMERON FOUNDATION ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$79k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$139k
Net assets
$1.1M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Meadowview Biological Research Station does

Mission

Preserving and restoring rare wetland plants and their associated habitats on the coastal plain of maryland and virginia

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education-provide presenations available to the public

    $34,521 spent
    31% of program spending

  2. Research-conduting studies on the genetics, biochemistry ecology and population biology of rare plants

    $31,181 spent
    28% of program spending

  3. Propagation-raising plants in greenhouses for education and reintroduction

    $21,158 spent
    19% of program spending

  4. Other programs

    $24,499 spent
    22% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $111,359.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($149k) Expenses 100 ($135k) Net assets 100 ($590k)2018 Revenue 111 ($165k) Expenses 100 ($136k) Net assets 105 ($621k)2019 Revenue 95 ($141k) Expenses 62 ($84k) Net assets 115 ($678k)2020 Revenue 205 ($305k) Expenses 59 ($80k) Net assets 153 ($903k)2021 Revenue 209 ($312k) Expenses 91 ($124k) Net assets 185 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 206 ($308k) Expenses 122 ($165k) Net assets 209 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 62 ($93k) Expenses 114 ($154k) Net assets 199 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 66 ($98k) Expenses 117 ($158k) Net assets 189 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 53 ($79k) Expenses 82 ($111k) Net assets 183 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (53)Expenses (82)Net assets (183)Peer revenue range

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 $850k to $1.4M (+63%).

$832k
$831k
$850k
$1.4M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 17% · 2018 16% · 2019 17% · 2020 77% · 2021 8% · 2022 0% · 2023 31% · 2024 46% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (89% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 835 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
$29k
’18
$58k
’19
$225k
’20
$188k
’21
$143k
’22
−$61k
’23
−$59k
’24
−$32k
’25
0.3
months of
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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $7k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
2
2
2
2
1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION’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

MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

40%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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.

Where its funders are

84% of MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION has grown faster than half of the 479 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−40% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION

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

Crows Nest Research Center76%Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory76%Piedmont Discovery Center75%Scenic Virginia Inc75%Virginia Living Museum Inc74%Vmi Research Laboratories73%Virginia Horticultural Foundation73%Nature Camp Inc73%

Nationally

Meadowlark Hearth Living Environmen Foundation78%Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage Inc78%Mountain Meadows Conservancy77%Southern Maryland RC&D Board Inc77%Seed Savers Exchange Inc77%Maryland Biodiversity Project Inc77%Finding Species Inc77%Morning Star Conservancy Inc76%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION: 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 MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION?
MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,727 to it, the largest being THE CAMERON FOUNDATION ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $138,727 in grants to MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION?
THE CAMERON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEADOWVIEW BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH STATION 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 2017–2025), 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