Virginia · Nonprofit
The Clermont Foundation
The Clermont Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,250 to it, the largest being THE BANK OF CLARKE COUNTY FOUNDATION ($2,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $237k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What The Clermont Foundation does
Mission
The Foundation preserves the cultural landscape of historic Clermont Farm and uses it to promote public education and engagement with agriculture, history, and historic preservation, including the history of all the peoples associated with the site, through partnerships with regional educational organizations and the farms owner, the Va Dept. of Historic Resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
AGRICULTURE: The Foundation uses the 362-acre Clermont Farm site as a commercial beef cattle, sheep, and crop (corn) operation, which is the basis for preserving a 284-year old agricultural landscape and providing an agricultural education and demonstration program working with the Farm Bureau and the Virginia Cooperative Extension. Clermont also serves as a teaching farm for Clarke County Public Schools and supports working farmers through the Extension Service. In 2025, additional best practice conservation measures were added to the farm, including a 780' tree shelterbelt and 21 acres of brush management. The middle school experiential ag program was expanded, and a tour wagon was built to support more farm tours. 2.2 acres of former state highway were acquired connecting cropland as well as expanding equipment/hay storage and wildlife conservation areas.
$201,541 spent$127,286 earned by the program66% of program spendingHISTORIC PRESERVATION: The Foundation demonstrates best historic preservation practices and conducts education programs about them using historic buildings and archaeological resources. Repairs to historic buildings are used as opportunities for demonstrations of best practices, appropriate technologies, and to conduct further research and documentation. In 2025, The Foundation was awarded $747,000 in a second National Park Service grant. The grant honors the U.S.'s 250th anniversary by rehabilitating sites associated with the nation's founding. This will repair the main house interior, five service buildings, and five structures. A similar 2022 grant was completed in 2025 on the spring house, smoke house and main house exterior. Clermont's 2005 National Register nomination was updated based on the 2013 Historic Structure Report.
$59,843 spent20% of program spendingHISTORY: The Foundation conducts research and education programs related to the history of the farm, its regional and economic context, and the people who have lived and worked here. The Foundation maintains archives of family papers and research materials related to the farm, and collections of historic furnishings, objects, and archaeological materials. All are available to external researchers. In 2025, a new website was introduced, with more historical materials, as part of an expanded digital public outreach program, as well as new social media accounts with daily updates. Community events for physical access were also increased through scheduled Saturdays. The Foundation was a sponsor of the revived county Juneteenth celebration. The research on a rare 18th century chair made locally was published nationally in American Period Furniture.
$44,826 spent$3,734 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $306,210.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.5M to $3.9M (−13%).
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: 2017 17% · 2018 11% · 2019 22% · 2020 40% · 2021 13% · 2022 13% · 2023 6% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of The Clermont Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Robert W Stieg Jr
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of The Clermont Foundation’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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Clermont Foundation's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Clermont Foundation's revenue fell 24% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding The Clermont Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.2M
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.
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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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Clermont Foundation?
- The Clermont Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,250 to it, the largest being THE BANK OF CLARKE COUNTY FOUNDATION ($2,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Clermont Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,250 in grants to The Clermont Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Clermont Foundation?
- THE BANK OF CLARKE COUNTY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Clermont Foundation 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 1 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