Virginia · Nonprofit
WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,700 to it, the largest being EASLEY CHAR IRR TUA 5019004715 ($12,700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $196k
What Wharton Memorial Foundation does
Mission
To honor and continue the gardening legacies of mrs. Louise bibb wharton and mrs. Eloise gregory, to encourage interest in horticulture through the creation and maintenance of public gardens, and to promote the development of north bridge street in the town of bedford as a cultural and historic area through our gardening, our restoration of an historic structure built by john wharton, and our support of the programs of the bedford central library, the bedford historic society and other neighboring institutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To encourage interest in horticulture through the creation and maintenance of public gardens, and to promote the development of north bridge street in the town of bedford as a cultural and historic area through our gardening, our restoration of an historic structure built by john wharton, and our support of the programs of the bedford central library, the bedford historic society and other neighboring institutions.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2018 to 2019, from $175k to $196k (+12%).
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 27% · 2018 17% · 2019 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 70% · 2023 24% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
451% of WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $3k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 WHARTON MEMORIAL 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.
How concentrated its funding is
WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
34% 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 WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
81% of WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 3,152 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,152 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
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 WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: 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 WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,700 to it, the largest being EASLEY CHAR IRR TUA 5019004715 ($12,700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $23,700 in grants to WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WHARTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- EASLEY CHAR IRR TUA 5019004715 is the largest funder on record, with $12,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHARTON MEMORIAL 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 3 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