Visit Virginias Blue Ridge Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814589910
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5043426025
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $85,000
- Expenses
- $51,789
- Assets
- $68,011
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- W LEE WILHELM III (President)
- RICHARD CAYWOOD (Vice President)
- MARK LUCAS (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- W LEE WILHELM III (President)
- JAY TALIAFERRO (Trustee)
- DOUG BLOUNT (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, literary and educational purposes, including, for such purposes and without limitations, to leverage and develop the Virginia's Blue Ridge region recreation-related and outdoor assets to encourage healthy, active engagement through recreation and the outdoors; to strengthen the community narrative centered on recreation and the outdoors; to develop physical amenities and festival and event offerings that enhance the quality-of-life for residents and visitors to Virginia's Blue Ridge region alike; to contribute to the economic development of Virginia's Blue Ridge region; and to the extent consistent therewith, for the conduct of any or all lawful affairs, not required to be stated specifically here.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.9%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.1%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19.5% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.1% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.