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Forever Marylandinc

Forever maryland promotes and supports the land conservation community, through education, advocacy, and outreach, to permanently protect working landscapes and healthy ecosystems for all.

$52k
Granted FY2023
5
Itemized grants FY2023
5
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$42k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$9,900
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$112k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Forever Marylandinc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20235$42k100%
FY20226$58k100%
FY20213$123k33%
FY20202$105kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Environment$285kCommunity Improvement$24kHealth$10kEmployment$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Forever Marylandinc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Catoctin Land Trust Inc$79,216247%
Neighborhood Design Center Inc$16,00011%
The Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming Incorporated$10,00017%
Stillmeadow Community Projects Inc$8,00013%
University of Maryland College Park$8,0001n/a
Rebuild Metro Inc$8,00010%
Turnaround Tuesday Inc$8,00010%
Interfaith Partners for the Chesapeake Inc$8,00011%
Neighborspace of Baltimore County Inc$8,00013%
Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Inc$8,00011%
Blue Water Baltimore$8,00010%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Forever Marylandinc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatoctin Land Trust Inc: $79,216 over 2y, 47% of budgetNeighborhood Design Center Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetStillmeadow Community Projects Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetRebuild Metro Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTurnaround Tuesday Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInterfaith Partners for the Chesapeake Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNeighborspace of Baltimore County Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGunpowder Valley Conservancy Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBlue Water Baltimore: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Chesapeake Bay TrustMD22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chesapeake Bay Trust · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Forever Marylandinc

How much does Forever Marylandinc give?
Forever Marylandinc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $41,900, out of $52,001 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Forever Marylandinc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (87%), Community Improvement (7%), Health (3%).
Who are Forever Marylandinc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Catoctin Land Trust Inc ($79k), Neighborhood Design Center Inc ($16k), The Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming Incorporated ($10k).
Does Forever Marylandinc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Forever Marylandinc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chesapeake Bay Trust, France-Merrick Foundation Inc, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Where is Forever Marylandinc based?
Forever Marylandinc is based in MD.

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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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