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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $41,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $52,001 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,101 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GALACENE SERVICES | $9,900 |
| REBUILD METRO | $8,000 |
| INTERFAITH PARTNERS | $8,000 |
| GUNPOWDER VALLEY CONSERVANCY | $8,000 |
| TURNAROUND TUESDAYS | $8,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.
Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.
To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…
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…
Cultivating prosperity for farms, business and communities through innovative environmental solutions.
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…
Restore Rock Creek and its parklands as a natural oasis for all people to appreciate and protect.
To develop and manage the research and technology park for umbc to facilitate research collaborations, tech transfer, and to create jobs.
Operates public markets as a base for neighborhood commercial revitalization.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Turnaround Tuesday Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 CATOCTIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming Incorporated ↗
- Who funds REBUILD METRO INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH PARTNERS FOR THE CHESAPEAKE INC ↗
- Who funds Stillmeadow Community Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds Turnaround Tuesday Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds GUNPOWDER VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORSPACE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
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: 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
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 Forever Marylandinc 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.
- Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Inc — 20% of income from government
- Neighborhood Design Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Rebuild Metro Inc — 5% 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.