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Chesapeake Bay Trust

CHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST is a public, nonprofit grant-making organization created to promote public awareness of and participation in the restoration and protection of the chesapeake bay and its tributaries.

$28M
Granted FY2025still arriving
267
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$61MCommunity Improvement$2.5MPublic Benefit$741kEducation$735kReligion$714kArts & Culture$516kHousing & Shelter$506kAnimals$336kOther$0
02FY2025 · 267 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 267 grants below total $21,506,725, the rows itemized in this filing. The $27,635,394 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,128,669 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 $10k47 grants · $374k
  • $10k–50k129 grants · $3.5M
  • $50k–250k73 grants · $7.6M
  • $250k+18 grants · $10.0M
$34,006
Median grant
9
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALTIMORE TREE TRUST$2,274,240
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY MARYLAND$1,085,000
ALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY$928,350
MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION WATERSHED RESTORATION D$769,943
BALTIMORE COUNTY DEPS$625,000
SHORERIVERS INC$599,082
ARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION$392,853
CHESAPEAKE RIVERS ASSOCIATION$364,902
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$336,472
SCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST$330,324
CLEAN WATER FUND$325,474
STILLMEADOW COMMUNITY PROJECTS$316,085
DEFENSORES DE LA CUENCA$283,000
BLUE WATER BALTIMORE$281,322
RESILIENCE AUTHORITY OF CHARLES COUNTY$278,006
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATURE WORX INC: $23k → 7%CENTRO DE APOYO FAMILIAR: $114k → 11%URBAN LEARNING & TEACHING CENTER: $30k → 14%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE: $23k → 19%DRINK AT THE WELL INC: $46k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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CO
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DE
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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 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
Middle Patuxent Environmental Foundation
Philanthropy
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
Harry R Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Wicomico Environmental Trust Ltd

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…

Environment
5
Earthreports Inc

To provide vital advocacy to help maintain and restore one of marylands most valuable resources, the patuxent river.

Environment
6
Montgomery County Lands Trust Inc

Land Conservation and Preservation.

Environment
7
Chesapeake Audubon Society

The chesapeake audubon society works in the maryland region to promote the stewardship of natural ecosystems through conservation, restoration, education, and advocacy.

Environment
8
Western Maryland Resource Conservation and Development

The Western Maryland Resource Conservation and Development Councils WMRC&D mission is to build and sustain resource conservation programs which raise the quality of social economic and environmental development in our region.

Environment
9
Sustainable Chesapeake

Cultivating prosperity for farms, business and communities through innovative environmental solutions.

Public Benefit
10
Chesapeake Stormwater Network Inc
Environment
11
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
12
Montgomery Countryside Alliance Inc

To promote sound economic, land-use, and transportation policies that preserve the natural environment, open spaces, and rural lands in Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve for the benefit of all Washington metropolitan area residents.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Greentrust Alliance. 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

165 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. 165 of the 255 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
54
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/165
Grantees still filing
71/165
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC: $2,274,240 · EnvironmentBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INCALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC: $928,350 · EnvironmentALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INCSHORERIVERS INC: $599,082 · EnvironmentSHORERIVERS INCARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC: $392,853 · EnvironmentChesapeake Rivers Association: $364,902 · EnvironmentSCENIC RIVERS LAND TRUST INC: $330,324 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUND: $325,474 · Environment+57 more: $4,148,397 · Environment+57 morePRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS: $1,085,000 · OtherPRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONSMONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND: $910,174 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLANDBALTIMORE COUNTY GOVERNMENT: $625,000 · OtherBALTIMORE COUNTY GOVERNMENTUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $441,430 · OtherStillmeadow Community Projects Inc: $316,085 · Other+91 more: $5,217,704 · Other+91 moreALLIANCE FOR THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY: $260,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER REMINGTON IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $201,230 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL BALTIMORE PARTNERSHIP INC: $163,441 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER INC: $147,907 · Community ImprovementMIDTOWN COMMUNITY FUND INC: $139,751 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $110,093 · Community ImprovementJASTECH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCAROLE HIGHLANDS NEIGHBORHOOD: $59,255 · Community ImprovementBroadway East CDC: $55,417 · Community Improvement+10 more: $297,933 · Community ImprovementLIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION: $85,486 · EducationCIVIC WORKS INC: $83,735 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC: $69,117 · EducationCity Neighbors Foundation Inc: $55,638 · EducationTHE FRIENDS OF THE GRAPE INC: $45,000 · EducationHARFORD FRIENDS SCHOOL INC DBA FRIENDS SCHOOL OF HARFORD: $42,160 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $34,006 · EducationVirginia Association for Environmental Education: $19,992 · Education+1 more: $13,813 · EducationNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $336,472 · AnimalsNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC: $85,175 · AnimalsGLOBAL HEALTH AND EDUCATION PROJECTS INC: $256,527 · InternationalSOUTH BALTIMORE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $78,650 · InternationalWORLD ARTS FOCUS: $172,500 · Arts & CultureGrow Home Inc: $31,087 · Arts & CultureANN'S CIRCLE INC: $21,358 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE CLAYWORKS INC: $17,555 · Arts & CultureTHE MARINERS' MUSEUM: $14,000 · Arts & CultureSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureSHENANDOAH VALLEY BLACK HERITAGE PROJECT: $13,167 · Arts & Culture
Environment$9,363,622Other$8,595,393Community Improvement$1,510,027Education$523,947Animals$421,647International$335,177Arts & Culture$283,167

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARUNDEL RIVERS FEDERATION INC: $392,853 over 1y, 11% of budgetChesapeake Rivers Association: $364,902 over 1y, 35% of budgetLOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $272,139 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $219,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNature Forward: $205,462 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWORLD ARTS FOCUS: $172,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $170,905 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL BALTIMORE PARTNERSHIP INC: $163,441 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCATOCTIN LAND TRUST INC: $150,977 over 1y, 28% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER INC: $147,907 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMIDTOWN COMMUNITY FUND INC: $139,751 over 1y, 23% of budgetAlice Ferguson Foundation Inc: $131,932 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $128,802 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetOAKLAND MILLS INTERFAITH INC: $126,232 over 1y, 17% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $110,093 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN MARYLAND RC&D BOARD INC: $99,034 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHARFORD LAND TRUST INC: $87,788 over 1y, 16% of budgetCIVIC WORKS INC: $83,735 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNANTICOKE WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC: $79,755 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFair Hill Environmental Foundation INC: $72,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC: $69,117 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCasey Trees: $56,513 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAGOTHY RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $55,800 over 1y, 62% of budgetCity Neighbors Foundation Inc: $55,638 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetBroadway East CDC: $55,417 over 1y, 12% of budgetSUSTAINABILITY MATTERS INC: $54,263 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE COMPLETE PLAYER CHARITY LTD: $49,770 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMUNITY VOICE INC: $48,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetDRINK AT THE WELL INC: $45,584 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPATAPSCO HERITAGE GREENWAY INC: $45,444 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc: $43,069 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $42,259 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHARFORD FRIENDS SCHOOL INC DBA FRIENDS SCHOOL OF HARFORD: $42,160 over 1y, 31% of budgetONE MORE ONE LESS MENTORING INC: $39,600 over 1y, 20% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $38,208 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE FALLS WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC: $37,912 over 1y, 20% of budgetMARYLAND COASTAL BAYS FOUNDATION INC: $37,800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $36,684 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMARYLAND ONSITE WASTEWATER P A: $36,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetLOWER SHORE LAND TRUST INC: $35,734 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $34,006 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMaryland Assoc for Environmental & Outdoor Educati: $33,978 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetColumbia Association Inc: $32,740 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK CORRIDOR BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY INC: $31,725 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $31,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWard 8 Woods Conservancy Inc: $31,487 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetClaymont Society For Coninuous Education: $27,642 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

The Keith Campbell Fo…France-Merrick Founda…National Fish and Wil…Baltimore Community F…The United Way of Cen…The Abell Foundation …The Morris Goldseker …Greater Washington Co…Virginia Environmenta…Baltimore Civic Fund …The Morris and Gwendo…Kentfields Foundation
The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment IncMD70.7× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Virginia Environmental Endowment · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Kentfields 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 Chesapeake Bay Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chesapeake Bay Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 260%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Baltimore Tree Trust Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Greentrust Alliance: 100% of income from government
  • World Arts Focus: 100% of income from government
  • Defensores De La Cuenca: 100% of income from government
  • St James Development Corporation Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Maryland Reentry Resource Center: 77% of income from government
  • Midtown Community Fund Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Nanticoke Watershed Alliance Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Civic Works Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Maryland Coastal Bays Foundation Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Land and Cultural Preservation Fund Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Central Baltimore Partnership Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Parks and People Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Greater Remington Improvement Association: 43% of income from government
  • Afrithrive Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Maryland Assoc for Environmental & Outdoor Educati: 35% of income from government
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
  • Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations: 27% of income from government
  • Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Intersection of Change Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Arundel Rivers Federation Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Moonshot Missions Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Harford Land Trust Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Design Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
  • South Baltimore Community Land Trust Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Adamah Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Sultana Education Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Living Classrooms Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • Howard Ecoworks Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Complete Player Charity Ltd: 6% of income from government
  • The Howard County Conservancy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Rebuild Metro Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Clayworks Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
13rely 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 255 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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