Virginia · Nonprofit
SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE
SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,762,196 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($2,237,413). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $273k
What Sustainable Chesapeake does
Mission
Cultivating prosperity for farms, business and communities through innovative environmental solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sustainable Chesapeake is committed to working collaboratively to identify conservation solutions that work for farmers and the chesapeake bay. In partnership with farmers, we are working to find solutions for some of the most challenging non-point source pollution problems in our region, like reducing nutrient loss from manure and commercial fertilizers through practices that improve soil health, productivity, and resilience to extreme weather.
Sustainable Chesapeake is committed to working collaboratively to identify conservation solutions that work for farmers and the chesapeake bay. In partnership with farmers, we are working to find solutions for some of the most challenging non-point source pollution problems in our region, like reducing nutrient loss from manure and commercial fertilizers through practices that improve soil health, productivity, and resilience to extreme weather.
$1,257,992 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,257,992.
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 2022 to 2023, from $323k to $544k (+68%).
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 85% · 2019 88% · 2020 88% · 2021 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 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.
Board chair
Robert Monley
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $310k → $1.0M.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE’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
SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 53% · 2021 69% · 2022 70% · 2023 54% — 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
SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE has grown faster than half of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record — $375k federal, $984k state.
- Department of Agriculture$375k
- Grant$984k
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 SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE: 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 SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE?
- SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,762,196 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($2,237,413). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,762,196 in grants to SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,237,413 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUSTAINABLE CHESAPEAKE 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