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· Public charity

Keep America Beautiful Inc

Keep america beautiful, the nation's leading community improvement nonprofit, inspires and educates people to take action to improve and beautify their community environment.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$278k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$5.4MCommunity Improvement$415kPublic Benefit$223kEducation$139kRecreation & Sports$122kArts & Culture$88kHuman Services$87kPhilanthropy$62kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 51 grants below total $1,240,199, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,418,471 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $178,272 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $644k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $216k
  • $250k+1 grant · $278k
$14,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL$277,500
KEEP CALIFORNIA BEAUTIFUL$97,659
I LOVE A CLEAN SAN DIEGO$63,044
KEEP VIRGINIA BEAUTIFUL$55,204
KEEP RIVERSIDE CLEAN & BEAUTIFUL$40,650
KEEP PENNSYLVANIA BEAUTIFUL$38,892
KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL$37,500
KEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL INC$32,458
KEEP BAKERSFIELD BEAUTIFUL$32,000
KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL$26,000
KEEP DELAWARE BEAUTIFUL$26,000
CITY OF PITTSBURGH$25,500
KEEP LEE COUNTY BEAUTIFUL$25,000
KEEP COLLEGE PARK BEAUTIFUL$23,740
KEEP TENNESSEE BEAUTIFUL$22,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LET'S THRIVE BALTIMORE INC: $20k → 19%WEST BROAD STREET YMCA: $7k → 16%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

AK
ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 80 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
163

Total granted

$4.1M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+14%

Still filing today

69%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $603k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • PC
    PA CLEANWAYS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +37%
  • IL
    I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +60%
  • KA
    KEEP ALACHUA COUNTY BEAUTIFUL INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $129k · revenue +11% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • BC
    BOISE CITY PUBLIC WORKS SOLID WASTE DEPT
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • CF
    Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington
    one grant, 2017 · $44k · revenue -50%
  • CO
    CITY OF BOSTON PARKS AND RECREATION
    one grant, 2019 · $42k
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
Keep Mcallen Beautiful Inc

To develop and expand the awareness of mcallen's citizens and visitors about littering and proper disposal of waste, and to promote the beautification and preservation of mcallen's natural beauty.

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2
Keep Sevier Beautiful

The organizations purpose is to encourage litter prevention, recycling and solid waste reduction in sevier county, tennessee

Arts & Culture
3
Keep Rockland Beautiful Inc

Keep Rockland Beautiful (KRB) leads efforts to clean, protect, and beautify Rockland County's environment by educating and empowering people to share in the care and stewardship of our communities.

Environment
4
Keep Temple Beautiful

Keep temple beautiful is a community-led, charitable organization dedicated to making the city a more beautiful place to live, learn and work. the organization facilitates a wide range of activities relating to: litter prevention and…

Environment
5
Keep Greenville Beautiful

To empower Greenville citizens through education to take responsibility for enhancing their community environment.

Environment
6
Keep Midland Beautiful Inc

To educate and inspire our community to take action to create a clean, beautiful and waste-free midland.

Environment
7
Keep Carroll Beautiful

The Keep Carroll Beautiful mission is to engage the citizens of Carroll County in taking responsibility for improving our community's environment. Our organization works with a vision to develop practical events and programs that enable…

Environment
8
Keep Brazos Beautiful

Our mission is to educate and engage Brazos County citizens to keep our community clean, green, and beautiful.

Environment
9
Keep Waco Beautiful Inc

To make the waco community a cleaner, safer, healthier and more beautiful place, through programs such as ones involving anti-litter efforts, clean-ups, beautification, sustainability and recycling, as well as promoting citizen involvement…

Environment
10
Clean Tahoe Program

To improve the visual quality of the Tahoe Basin portion of El Dorado County through community education, citizen involvement and enforcecment of litter and nuisance ordinances.

Environment
11
Keep Dalton Whitfield Clean & Beautiful Inc

To improve the quality of dalton whitfield's environment by planting foliage and promoting activities such as recycling.

Environment
12
Keep Nassau Beautiful Inc

The mission of Keep Nassau Beautiful, Inc. is to educate and enable citizens in the conservation and preservation of our natural environment and resources. The mission is accomplished through four primary programs: Wild Amelia,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keep Phoenix Beautiful Inc; the most unlike its peers is Keep Miles City Beautiful. 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

148 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 148 of the 268 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/148
Grantees still filing
87/148
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEEP VIRGINIA BEAUTIFUL: $298,704 · EnvironmentKEEP VIRGINIA BEAUTIFULKEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL INC: $277,500 · EnvironmentKEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL INCPA CLEANWAYS INC: $202,892 · EnvironmentPA CLEANWAYS INCI Love A Clean San Diego County Inc: $165,259 · EnvironmentKEEP ALACHUA COUNTY BEAUTIFUL INC: $129,350 · EnvironmentKEEP GOLDEN ISLES BEAUTIFUL INC: $120,200 · EnvironmentKeep California Beautiful Inc: $119,659 · EnvironmentKEEP PINELLAS BEAUTIFUL INC: $111,480 · Environment+58 more: $1,848,119 · Environment+58 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $89,000 · OtherCITY OF PORT ST LUCIE: $86,500 · Other+110 more: $2,168,239 · Other+110 moreKEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL INC: $226,358 · Community ImprovementHIGHWAY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION & ENHANCE DIST INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementMINNEAPOLIS DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT: $17,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC: $16,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $18,500 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $96,510 · PhilanthropyCenter for Great Neighborhoods of Covington: $43,500 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION: $8,400 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $24,000 · EducationWILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY: $23,972 · EducationCITY HONORS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationSpelman College: $18,095 · EducationClark Atlanta University Inc: $16,964 · EducationLYCEE FRANCAIS DE LA NOUVELLE ORLEANS: $12,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION: $11,309 · EducationBLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM COUNCIL INC: $32,150 · Arts & CultureBAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION: $32,000 · Arts & CulturePORT ARANSAS COMMUNITY THEATRE: $12,000 · Arts & CultureColor The Block: $11,581 · Arts & CultureGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Environment$3,273,163Other$2,343,739Community Improvement$317,858Philanthropy$158,410Education$126,340Arts & Culture$87,731Housing & Shelter$30,000

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 budgetKEEP VIRGINIA BEAUTIFUL: $298,704 over 8y, 30% of budgetKEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL INC: $277,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetKEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL INC: $226,358 over 8y, 30% of budgetPA CLEANWAYS INC: $202,892 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetI Love A Clean San Diego County Inc: $165,259 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetKEEP ALACHUA COUNTY BEAUTIFUL INC: $129,350 over 5y, 31% of budgetKEEP GOLDEN ISLES BEAUTIFUL INC: $120,200 over 8y, 23% of budgetKeep California Beautiful Inc: $119,659 over 2y, 43% of budgetKEEP PINELLAS BEAUTIFUL INC: $111,480 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetKEEP COBB BEAUTIFUL INC: $100,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $96,510 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY BEAUTIFUL INC: $90,137 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetKEEP INDIAN RIVER BEAUTIFUL INC: $88,500 over 6y, 29% of budgetKEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC: $87,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKEEP PHOENIX BEAUTIFUL INC: $82,020 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetKEEP DELAWARE BEAUTIFUL INC: $80,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetKEEP THE TENNESSEE RIVER BEAUTIFUL: $79,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetKEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL INC: $75,156 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetKEEP PHILADELPHIA BEAUTIFUL: $74,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetGREATER RIVERSIDE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE: $69,625 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKeep Cincinnati Beautiful Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetKEEP LEE COUNTY BEAUTIFUL INC: $55,750 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetKEEP JACKSON BEAUTIFUL: $55,193 over 3y, 70% of budgetCenter for Great Neighborhoods of Covington: $43,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetKEEP LOUISIANA BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATIONINC: $41,100 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetGWINNETT CLEAN & BEAUTIFUL SERVICES: $39,750 over 4y, 16% of budgetSHREVEPORT GREEN: $39,250 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetKEEP PUTNAM BEAUTIFUL INC: $36,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetKEEP GREATER MILWAUKEE BEAUTIFUL: $35,290 over 4y, 12% of budgetKEEP BEATRICE BEAUTIFUL INC: $33,830 over 2y, 29% of budgetKEEP TAMPA BAY BEAUTIFUL: $33,309 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBLACKSTONE VALLEY TOURISM COUNCIL INC: $32,150 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetKEEP THE MIDLANDS BEAUTIFUL: $31,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetKEEP SMYRNA BEAUTIFUL: $30,460 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION GREEN TEAM FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetKEEP AKRON BEAUTIFUL: $29,250 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetKEEP MASSACHUSETTS BEAUTIFUL INC: $28,750 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $28,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKeep Blount Beautiful: $26,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetKEEP PRINCE WILLIAM BEAUTIFUL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetMARYLAND COASTAL BAYS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPARKS FOUNDATION OF MIAMI-DADEINC: $24,275 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY: $23,972 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Beach Coalition: $23,500 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS: $22,618 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.

  • Who funds KEEP VIRGINIA BEAUTIFUL ↗
  • Who funds KEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds PA CLEANWAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds I Love A Clean San Diego County Inc ↗
  • Who funds KEEP ALACHUA COUNTY BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP GOLDEN ISLES BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds Keep California Beautiful Inc ↗
  • Who funds KEEP PINELLAS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP COBB BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP INDIAN RIVER BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP INDIANAPOLIS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP PHOENIX BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP DELAWARE BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP THE TENNESSEE RIVER BEAUTIFUL ↗
  • Who funds KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP PHILADELPHIA BEAUTIFUL ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RIVERSIDE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Inc ↗
  • Who funds KEEP LEE COUNTY BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP JACKSON BEAUTIFUL ↗
  • Who funds Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington ↗
  • Who funds KEEP LOUISIANA BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHWAY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION & ENHANCE DIST INC ↗
  • Who funds GWINNETT CLEAN & BEAUTIFUL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SHREVEPORT GREEN ↗
  • Who funds KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL SYSTEM OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds KEEP PUTNAM BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP GREATER MILWAUKEE BEAUTIFUL ↗

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.

National Arbor Day Fo…Cities for Financial …National Recreation a…Keep Louisiana Beauti…Palmettopride the Gov…American Beverage Fou…Surfing's Evolution &…The Recycling Partner…Firehouse Subs Public…National Fish and Wil…American ForestsPatagoniaorg
National Arbor Day FoundationNE41.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Arbor Day Foundation · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · Keep Louisiana Beautiful Foundationinc · Palmettopride the Governor's Council on Beautification & Litter · American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America · Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation Inc · The Recycling Partnership Inc · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · American Forests · Patagoniaorg

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 Keep America Beautiful Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keep America Beautiful Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Baltimore Tree Trust Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Maryland Coastal Bays Foundation Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Vermont Community Garden Network Inc: 28% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Downtown Frederick Partnership Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Keep Lee County Beautiful Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 268 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home