Virginia · Nonprofit
VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT
VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,737,432 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($337,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $786k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Virginia Interfaith Power & Light does
Mission
Virginia Interfaith Power & Light collaborates among people of faith and conscience to grow healthy communities by advancing climate and environmental education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stormwater reduction and resilience: VAIPL works to support the community-led efforts to address sea level rise, flooding due to severe weather, well failures, rising water tables, and salinization in coastal communities. We are educating communities, planning resilience strategies, and seeking solutions for individuals across the state. We are working on the middle peninsula to help faith communities develop resilience strategies and projects to support residents, particularly in severe weather conditions. Finally, we are serving faith communities in Richmond and Petersburg for stormwater reduction, heat island impact, and lowering their energy costs.
$164,130 spent33% of program spendingWe are educating faith leaders and community members concerned about the health outcomes for their members and all Virginia residents. Heat stress and heat zones due to a lack of tree canopy and green space exacerbate chronic diseases like diabetes and asthma in children. Tree canopy raises the aesthetic and environment for community members, which has a positive impact on mental and emotional health.
$164,130 spent33% of program spendingEnergy Burden: VAIPL believes that as people of faith, it's our responsibility to promote affordable energy for all Virginians and respond to the experiences and challenges of utility and energy costs and access that Virginia families face. We work to support access to sufficient and affordable energy for all Virginia communities. VAIPL works to educate faith communities on lowering their energy burden through energy-efficient and renewable energy opportunities. We also support community efforts to improve their environments and air and water quality against pollution through emissions.
$164,129 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $492,389.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.3M (+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: 2023 8% · 2024 27% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Rev Faith Harris
Executive Director
Board chair
Aliya Farooq
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $20k → $349k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT’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
VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% 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 VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 35% · 2023 21% — 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
VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k 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.
Against its field
VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT: 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 VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT?
- VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,737,432 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($337,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,737,432 in grants to VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $337,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 16 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