Maryland · Private foundation
Nature Sacred
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $171k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $16,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Nature Sacred funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 45 | $163k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $100k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $71k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $59k | 86% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $13k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $332k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Greenway Initiative | $175,321 | 5 | 14% |
| University of Chicago | $80,675 | 2 | 0% |
| Drury University | $64,022 | 1 | 0% |
| Emanuel Medical Center Foundation | $40,896 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of Kirby Lane Park Ltd | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Washington Parks & People | $27,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of Patterson Park Inc | $23,500 | 4 | 1% |
| The Village Learning Place Inc | $21,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Intersection of Change Inc | $21,240 | 4 | 1% |
| Backyard Basecamp Inc | $19,500 | 3 | 62% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nature Sacred supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Chesapeake Bay Trust · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc
How this is measured
About Nature Sacred
- How much does Nature Sacred give?
- Nature Sacred reported 46 grants totaling $171,230 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Nature Sacred fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Environment (23%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Nature Sacred's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Brooklyn Greenway Initiative ($175k), University of Chicago ($81k), Drury University ($64k).
- Does Nature Sacred fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nature Sacred accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nature Sacred?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc, The United Way of Central Maryland Inc.
- Where is Nature Sacred based?
- Nature Sacred is based in MD.
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