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· Public charity

Friends of the Patapsco Valley Inc

To preserve, protect, interpret and restore the environment, history and culture of the patapsco river valley.

$19k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$5k
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, FY2017 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$27kRecreation & Sports$20kEnvironment$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kCommunity Improvement$4kPublic Benefit$4kEducation$1k
02FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,685
Median grant
1
States reached
$471k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATONSVILLE RAILS TO TRAILS INC$4,700
CATONSVILLE TREE CANOPY PROJECT$3,750
HOWARD COUNTY RECREATION & PARKS$2,350
HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC$2,000
HOWARD ECOWORKS INC$1,685
VISIT HOWARD COUNTY$1,665
BENJAMIN BANNEKER FOUNDATION$1,250
THE GREATER PATAPSCO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC$875
HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$500
OELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$250
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE: $3k → 6%CATONSVILLE RAILS TO TRAILS INC: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE: $3k → 6%CATONSVILLE RECREATION AND PARKS COUNCIL: $4k → 11%FRIENDS OF PATAPSCO VALLEY STATE PARK: $7k → 6%CATONSVILLE RECREATION AND PARKS COUNCIL: $4k → 11%HOWARD COUNTY GOVERNMENT: $4k → 6%CATONSVILLE TREE CANOPY PROJECT: $4k → 11%OELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 6%BENJAMIN BANNEKER FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%OELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 6%BENJAMIN BANNEKER FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%FRIENDS OF PATAPSCO VALLEY STATE PARK: $2k → 6%CATONSVILLE RECREATION AND PARKS COUNCIL: $3k → 11%HOWARD COUNTY TOURISM COUNCIL INC: $2k → 6%CATONSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $2k → 11%VISIT HOWARD COUNTY: $2k → 6%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%HOWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $500 → 6%BENJAMIN BANNEKER FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%OELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250 → 6%HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC: $2k → 11%UPPER PATUXENT ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP: $1k → 6%HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC: $2k → 11%HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 → 6%HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC: $2k → 11%HOWARD COUNTY RECREATION & PARKS: $2k → 6%HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC: $1k → 11%HOWARD ECOWORKS INC: $2k → 6%THE GREATER PATAPSCO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $875 → 11%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60k · 8 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$60k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+162%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EnvironmentArts & CulturePublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • CR
    CATONSVILLE RECREATION & PARKS COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +41%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PATAPSCO VALLEY STATE PARK LTD
    2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +497%
  • TH
    THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOWARD COUNTY GOVERNMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • TG
    THE GREATER CATONSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +79%
  • UP
    UPPER PATUXENT ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Howard County Chamber of Commerce

To represent the business community of howard county, maryland

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2
Howard County Historical Society

To collect, preserve and share the diverse history of all the peoples of howard county

Arts & Culture
3
Historical Society Harford Cou

Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland

—
4
Hyattsville Community Development Corporation

To develop arts and public spaces in the community; to spur economic development and the quality of community life in hyattsville; to encourage widespread community leadership for community revitalization; to promote educational activities…

Community Improvement
5
Developing Howard County

Promote economic developement

Community Improvement
6
Howard County Association of Realtors Inc

To unite those engaged in the recognized branches of the real estate profession for the purposes of exerting a beneficial influence upon the profession and related interests.

—
7
Baltimore County Historical Society Inc

The Historical Society of Baltimore County Collects, Preserves and Interprets the Rich History of Baltimore County for the Education and Enjoyment of Present and Future Generations.

—
8
Allegheny County Conservation District

The Allegheny County Conservation District is an urban conservation district that engages and leads through partnerships, innovation, and implementation to conserve, promote, and improve Allegheny Countys natural resources.

Environment
9
Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.

Environment
10
Washington County Historical Society Inc

The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.

Arts & Culture
11
Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The Chamber engages in promotional activities for the commercial welfare of Georgetown County serving hundreds of members through business promotion, networking, leadership development, business training, tourism promotion, destination…

Community Improvement
12
Oregon Ridge Nature Center Council

Oregon Ridge Nature Center Council was created to advise, recommend, promote, conduct and develop, in cooperation with the Department of Recreation and Parks and its Board, nature interpretation and conservation programs and projects…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Howard County Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Catonsville Rails to Trail Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATONSVILLE RECREATION & PARKS COUNCIL INC: $14,250 · OtherCATONSVILLE RECREATION & PARKS COUNCIL INCEllicott City Historic District Partnership LLC: $9,000 · OtherEllicott City Historic District Partnership LLCBENJAMIN BANNEKER FOUNDATION: $6,825 · OtherBENJAMIN BANNEKER FOUNDATIONOELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,250 · OtherOELLA HISTORICAL SOCIETYHOWARD COUNTY TOURISM COUNCIL INC: $3,665 · OtherHOWARD COUNTY TOURISM COUNCIL INCHOWARD COUNTY GOVERNMENT: $3,626 · OtherHOWARD COUNTY GOVERNMENTDIRECTOR OF FINANCE HOWARD COUNTY: $2,350 · OtherTHE GREATER CATONSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $2,375 · OtherTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC: $7,425 · EnvironmentTHE HOWARD COUNTY CO…CATONSVILLE RAILS TO TRAIL INC: $4,700 · EnvironmentCATONSVILLE RAILS TO…HOWARD ECOWORKS INC: $1,685 · EnvironmentHOWARD ECOWORKS INCFRIENDS OF THE PATAPSCO VALLEY STATE PARK LTD: $8,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF TH…HOWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $500 · Arts & CultureHOWARD COUNTY…THE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Public BenefitTHE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Education
Other$49,341Environment$13,810Arts & Culture$9,000Public Benefit$5,000Education$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEllicott City Historic District Partnership LLC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PATAPSCO VALLEY STATE PARK LTD: $8,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetTHE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC: $7,425 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOWARD COUNTY TOURISM COUNCIL INC: $3,665 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREATER CATONSVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOWARD ECOWORKS INC: $1,685 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Community Foundat…Chesapeake Bay TrustThe Horizon Foundatio…The United Way of Cen…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Howard County IncMD19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Howard County Inc · Chesapeake Bay Trust · The Horizon Foundation of Howard County Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland 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 Friends of the Patapsco Valley Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends of the Patapsco Valley Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Greater Catonsville Chamber of Commerce Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Howard County Tourism Council Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Howard County Arts Council: 9% of income from government
  • Howard Ecoworks Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Howard County Conservancy Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 18 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 2020, released 2020. 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 $26k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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