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Casey Trees

To restore, enhance and protect the tree canopy of the nation's capital.

$775k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$1.4MHuman Services$78kEducation$52kScience & Tech$50kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $756,209, the rows itemized in this filing. The $775,496 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,287 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $216k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $533k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$208M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Baltimore Tree Trust$25,000
Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Urban Learning and Teaching Center: $112k → 14%Urban Learning and Teaching Center: $78k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 11 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$1.5M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+42%

Still filing today

82%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BT
    BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue +105%
  • N
    NATUREBRIDGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $195k · revenue +11%
  • AF
    Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $191k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of the National Arboretumgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +42%
  • TS
    THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $24k · revenue +3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc

Restore Rock Creek and its parklands as a natural oasis for all people to appreciate and protect.

Environment
2
Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy Inc

Our mission is to train and mobilize community leaders to drive change for sustainable landscapes and clean waters.

Environment
3
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

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.

Environment
4
Friends of Anacostia Park

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…

Philanthropy
5
Northern Virginia Conservation Trust

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…

Environment
6
Green Cities Accord

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…

Environment
7
Earth Conservation Corps

To reclaim the Anacostia River, our communities and our lives.

Environment
8
Irvine Natural Science Center Inc

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.

Environment
9
Maryland Assoc for Environmental & Outdoor Educati

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…

Unclassified
10
Groundwork Rva Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Arlington Garden in Pasadena

Arlington Garden is a climate-appropriate, habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all.

Environment
12
EarthGen Fka Wa Green Schools

EarthGens mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nature Forward; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC: $225,000 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INCNATUREBRIDGE: $195,471 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGEAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc: $190,625 · EnvironmentAlice Ferguson Foundation IncTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $165,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICACHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $119,896 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INCWard 8 Woods Conservancy Inc: $107,000 · EnvironmentWard 8 Woods Conservancy IncANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $92,694 · EnvironmentANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INCFriends of the National Arboretum: $50,000 · Environment+2 more: $46,942 · EnvironmentLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $67,881 · OtherLIVING CLASSRO…EDGEWOOD ALLEY GREEN: $62,521 · OtherEDGEWOOD ALLEY…VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYT…THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $24,386 · OtherTHE STUDENT CO…URBAN LEARNING AND TEACHING CENTER: $189,785 · Human ServicesURBAN LEARNIN…FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE SCHOOL OF HARVEST: $6,800 · Education
Environment$1,192,628Other$204,788Human Services$189,785Community Improvement$10,000Education$6,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC: $225,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $195,471 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc: $190,625 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetURBAN LEARNING AND TEACHING CENTER: $189,785 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $165,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC: $119,896 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWard 8 Woods Conservancy Inc: $107,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC: $92,694 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEDGEWOOD ALLEY GREEN: $62,521 over 2y, 62% of budgetFriends of the National Arboretum: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $24,386 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNature Forward: $22,942 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SCHOOL OF HARVEST: $6,800 over 1y, 10% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Washington Co…Chesapeake Bay TrustPatagoniaorgThe Morris and Gwendo…Nora Roberts Foundati…National Fish and Wil…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Casey Trees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Casey Trees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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