· Public charity
Casey Trees
To restore, enhance and protect the tree canopy of the nation's capital.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $756,209 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $775,496 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,287 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $216k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $533k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NatureBridge | $135,996 |
| Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc | $118,800 |
| Urban Learning and Teaching Center | $111,565 |
| Chesapeake Climate Action | $109,896 |
| Anacostia Watershed Society Inc | $56,694 |
| Living Classrooms Foundation of the National Capital Region-156 | $38,016 |
| Anacostia Watershed Society Inc | $25,000 |
| Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc | $25,000 |
| Baltimore Tree Trust | $25,000 |
| District of Columbia Green Spaces Alliance Inc | $24,000 |
| Edgewood Alley Green | $24,000 |
| Nature Forward Inc | $22,942 |
| The Garden Club of America | $22,500 |
| Fusion Partnerships Inc | $10,000 |
| The School of Harvest | $6,800 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BTBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue +105%
- NNATUREBRIDGE2× · 2024–2025 · $195k · revenue +11%
- AFAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $191k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- FOFriends of the National Arboretumgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +42%
- TSTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $24k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Restore Rock Creek and its parklands as a natural oasis for all people to appreciate and protect.
Our mission is to train and mobilize community leaders to drive change for sustainable landscapes and clean waters.
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
People for the Park. A Park for the People. FoAP uses Restorative Park Engagement practices to host intergenerational programs that promote mental, physical, and social well-being, creating space for community building and healing. We also…
The Northern Virginia Conservation Trust saves nearby nature by encouraging and assisting governments and private landowners to preserve and care for natural areas, trails, streams, parks, and historic and cultural resources for the…
Green Cities Accord is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering climate resilient communities through investments in tree canopy infrastructure to improve environmental health, climate resilience, and equity in communities. We focus…
To reclaim the Anacostia River, our communities and our lives.
We all thrive outdoors. we encourage lifelong engagement with the natural world through environmental learning and green living. at irvine, we inspire people to explore, respect and protect nature.
MAEOE encourages,engages and empowers the community to understand, responsibly use and promote the natural world. MAEOE is a nonprofit educational association, serving thousands of teachers, natural resource managers, nature center staff…
Mission: to cultivate the next generation of urban conservationists in richmond, virginia. vision: groundwork rva works with richmond youth to increase environmental, economic, and social well-being in neighborhoods by transforming…
Arlington Garden is a climate-appropriate, habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all.
EarthGens mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nature Forward and the most unlike its peers is The School of Harvest. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEARNING AND TEACHING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD ALLEY GREEN ↗
- Who funds Friends of the National Arboretum ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GREEN SPACES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL OF HARVEST ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Patagoniaorg · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Casey Trees funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Baltimore Tree Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.