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THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL
THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,730 to it, the largest being CARILION ROCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ($20,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $229k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $525k
What The Rockbridge Area Conservation Council does
Mission
The mission of The Rockbridge Area Conservation Council (rockbridge conservation or rc) is to promote and enhance the protection, sustainable use, and stewardship of our community's natural and cultural resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Organized and supported community conservation action initiatives: collaborated with habitat for humanity on a demonstration project to install solar panels on a habitat home and explored options for expanding the program; participated in lexington's advisory group on the city bike and pedestrian plan; monitored benthic water quality indicators, chemical indicators and bacteria, and salt in area streams; collaborated with 3north and kendal on landscape plans and trails for kendal and sunnyside preserve, including the brushy blue trail system; partnered with the u.s. Forest service to designate the 1st old growth network-recognized old growth forest in rockbridge, provided parking area design, and hosted a public opening ceremony; continued implementation of the vof go grant to develop the uncas trail; organized volunteers to assist with removing non-native invasive plant species from the sunnyside preserve; collaborated with deq and jmu to document water quality impacts of lake merriweather on the little calfpasture river; served on the allegheny blue ridge alliance advisory committee to develop conservation hub gis database resources for key regional environmental issues…
$119,859 spent100% of program spendingCommunity education on local conservation issues: hosted zoom seminars and posted recordings online on: pfas "forever chemicals", star gazing, dark sky lighting, givesolar program, how to create a carbon sink, biochar, rotational grazing, the virginia green program, and composting; responded to inquiries on conservation easements; collaborated on the design and managed sandy the sea turtle's educational display on reducing plastic waste including at rc's community festival booth; provided technical review and expert input on the lexington planned unit development (pud) ordinance and w&l master plan revision; served on the technical advisory committee (tac) for the pcb tmdl for the maury river; partnered with the garden club of virginia on a state-wide conservation forum on pfas; provided educational materials for the public library's summer reading program on oceans of possibilities; hosted a solar happy hour with solar united neighbors (sun) to kick off the ready, set, solar program in rockbridge; developed a white paper recommending provisions for commercial-scale solar power plant arrays in rockbridge; published the ridge and river newsletter quarterly and established a blog on…
Other outreach and program services: facilitated a meeting with uncas trail property owner and maury service authority to address concerns about discharges from the potw; organized and participated in the rockbridge waste reduction roundtable; publicized local conservation events at the natural bridge state park and elsewhere in rc's bi-weekly ecoevents calendar; supported the friends of brushy hills; revised the rockbridge conservation brochure and launched a new website; continued to participate in the virginia safe wildlife corridor coalition on behalf of the arcadia wildlife corridor; participated in the rockbridge area outdoors partnership; participated in the virginia conservation network pfas working group and contributed to the 2024 our common agenda whitepaper; attended vcn and valcv updates on conservation issues and alerted rc members of opportunities for public comment; collaborated with main street lexington on the caught green handed program; assisted deq with public outreach meetings to develop tmdls for mill and moores creeks; celebrated rc's 48th year of conservation with a public gathering for the 2024 annual meeting and presentation of annual conservations…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $119,859.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $424k to $535k (+26%).
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: 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $26 → $21k.
1 of 2 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 THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL’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
THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $230 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.
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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
93%
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 THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL: 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 THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL?
- THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,730 to it, the largest being CARILION ROCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ($20,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,730 in grants to THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL?
- CARILION ROCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL is the largest funder on record, with $20,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ROCKBRIDGE AREA CONSERVATION COUNCIL 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 2 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