· Public charity
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (CBF) mission, simply stated, is to Save the Bay.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $357k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chesapeake Bay Trust | $146,692 |
| Conservation and Development Area Council | $108,326 |
| Center for Watershed Protection Inc | $101,543 |
| Capital Area Greenbelt Association Inc | $49,845 |
| Capital Area Intermediate Unit | $31,313 |
| VA Department of Conservation and Recreation Division of Natural Heritage | $31,092 |
| Virginia Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) | $27,885 |
| Future Harvest | $14,255 |
| Groundwork RVA | $13,323 |
| Let's Go 1-2-3 | $12,000 |
| Western MD RC&D Inc | $10,000 |
| Virginia Forage & Grassland Council | $6,365 |
| Smithsonian Institution | $5,758 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 23%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST5× · 2021–2025 · $619k · revenue +118%
- CRCAPITAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL INC6× · 2018–2025 · $270k · revenue +51%
- LRLYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW3× · 2020–2022 · $230k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- DRDELMARVA RC&D INCone grant, 2021 · $231k · revenue -82% · 29% of their budget
- COCITY OF SALISBURYone grant, 2021 · $64k
- HSHEADWATERS SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $61k
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.
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.
The Center brings together diverse interests from the agricultural, forestry, and environmental communities for the purpose of retaining Maryland's working landscapes and the industries they support while protecting and improving the…
The mission of the rockbridge area conservation council (rockbridge conservation or rc) is to promote and enhance the protection, sustainable use, and stewardship of our community's natural and cultural resources.
Preserving and enhancing the scenic and environmental quality of the ecosystem of the chagrin river, lake erie and other ohio watersheds in a manner which assures a sustainable future for people, plants and animals.
The organization's mission is to protect, restore, and enhance the charles river and its watershed through science, advocacy, and the law. the organization develops science-based strategies to increase resilience, protect public health,…
The dan river basin association preserves and promotes the natural and cultural resources of the dan river basin through recreation, education, and stewardship.
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
Preservation of essex county virginia's rural characteristics, its scenic lands, natural resources, and historic structures.
Wicomico Environmental Trust supports protecting the environment, with special emphasis on the Wicomico River, its tributaries, and the paleochannel, and other policies that preserve and protect nature in our county and the Chesapeake Bay…
The watershed conservation resource center strives to protect, conserve, and restore natural resources by utilizing the watershed approach, environmental outreach, and providing planning and technical assistance to landowners, communities,…
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
Renew Richmond strives to build healthier, more self-empowered communities by involving local youth in agriculture and environmental sustainability. We do this by partnering with local public schools.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA RC&D INC ↗
- Who funds LYNNHAVEN RIVER NOW ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth River Project ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WATERSHED PROTECTION INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA FORAGE AND GRASSLAND COUNC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA GREENBELT ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK RVA INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Western Maryland Resource Conservation and Development ↗
- Who funds HORN FARM CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Lets Go 123 ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ENRICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Virginia Environmental Endowment · The Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds · United States Endowment for Forestry · Robins Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
- Western Maryland Resource Conservation and Development: 100% of income from government
- Delmarva Rc&d Inc: 100% of income from government
- Center for Watershed Protection Inc: 64% of income from government
- Future Harvest Inc: 41% of income from government
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc: 28% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc: 27% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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