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Rails to Trails Conservancy

The rails-to-trails conservancy is the nations largest trails org.

$737k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Recreation & Sports$3.6MCommunity Improvement$714kEnvironment$333kHealth$59kPhilanthropy$58kHuman Services$49kFood & Nutrition$33kArts & Culture$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 35 grants below total $707,390 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $737,390 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $380k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $257k
$10,290
Median grant
22
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW JERSEY BIKE WALK COALITION$180,000
30TH STREET INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR CORP$77,000
HACE$35,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION$27,600
FRIENDS OF THE MARKET INC$25,000
FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF SWANNANOA INC$25,000
EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT$25,000
PARK COUNTY MONTANA$20,000
WYOMING PATHWAYS$20,000
HARRISON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS$20,000
CATAWBA LANDS CONSERVANCY$15,000
DELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION$15,000
RIVANNA TRAILS FOUNDATION$15,000
LARAMIE COUNTY WYOMING$15,000
FRIENDS OF THE MERRIMACK RIVER GREENWAY TRAIL$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IN COLOR BIRDING CLUB: $10k → 7%GEARIN' UP BICYCLES: $8k → 14%GEARIN' UP BICYCLES: $8k → 14%GEARIN' UP BICYCLES: $12k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 27 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
113

Total granted

$2.9M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+13%

Still filing today

85%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NEW JERSEY BICYCLE COALITION INC DBA D/B/A NEW JERSEY BIKE & WALK COALITION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $380k · revenue +3% · 47% of their budget
  • 30TH STREET INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR CORP
    5× · 2021–2025 · $264k · revenue +158%
  • H
    HACE
    4× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE PARKS DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $88k
  • CN
    CROSS NEW HAMPSHIRE ADVENTURE TRAILgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +248%
  • DR
    DELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rails to Trails Conservancy

The rails-to-trails conservancy is the nations largest trails org. with a grassroots community more than 1 mil. strong dedicated to building a nation connected by trails, reimagining public spaces to create safe ways for everyone to walk,…

Environment
2
Falls Creek Wildlands and Trails

Falls Creek Wildlands and Trails FCWT promotes conservation stewardship and responsible recreation in the Falls Creek area through trail development and maintenance environmental restoration and preservation projects and educational…

Environment
3
Methow Valley Trails Collaborative

Enhancing sustainable trail experiences in the Methow Valley.

Environment
4
Georgia Mountain Trails Partnership Inc

A mission to create outdoor recreation opportunity, connect communities and trails, promote quality of life, and to protect our natural resources.

Recreation & Sports
5
Squannacook Greenways

Squannacook Greenways' goal is to build, maintain, and promote the Squannacook River Rail Trail (SRRT) as a source of recreation and safe non-motorized transportation. The Squannacook River Rail Trail is a proposed conversion of…

Recreation & Sports
6
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust

The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.

Environment
7
National Pike Trail Council
Environment
8
Kennett Area Trails Alliance
Recreation & Sports
9
Trailbuilders of Quiet Waters Mtb Trails Inc
Recreation & Sports
10
Erie Cattaraugus Rail Trail Inc

Erie Cattaraugus Rail Trail, Inc. (ECRT) is the trail manager for the railbanked portion of the Buffalo-Pittsburgh Railway in Western NY. Over twenty-seven miles long, this railroad right-of-way connects the nine communities along the…

Environment
11
Friends of Berrien County Trails

Support the construction and maintenance of trails (pedestrian, bicycle and waterway) within berrien county and connecting to adjacent counties, and encourage trail use.

Recreation & Sports
12
American Trails

To advance the development of diverse high quality trails and greenways for the benefit of people and communities through collaboration, education and communication to raise awareness of the value these trails offer.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Regional Trail Corporation and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Local History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%44%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/166
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,399

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

104 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. 104 of the 166 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/104
Grantees still filing
60/104
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF BROWNSVILLE — $1,506,001 · OtherCITY OF BROWNSVILLE30TH STREET INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR CORP — $263,750 · Other30TH STREET INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR CORP+83 more — $1,364,671 · Other+83 moreNEW JERSEY BICYCLE COALITION INC DBA D/B/A NEW JERSEY BIKE & WALK COALITION — $380,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW JERSEY BICY…CROSS NEW HAMPSHIRE ADVENTURE TRAIL — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCROSS NEW HAMPS…NATIONAL ROAD HERITAGE CORRIDOR — $36,500 · Recreation & SportsWashington Area Bicyclist Association — $35,000 · Recreation & Sports+18 more — $192,500 · Recreation & Sports+18 moreWyoming Pathways — $40,000 · EnvironmentWyoming Pat…GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC — $40,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDWORK …ARMSTRONG TRAILS INC — $35,000 · EnvironmentARMSTRONG T…STATE FORESTS TRUST OF OREGON — $30,000 · EnvironmentSTATE FORES…IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EnvironmentIOWA NATURA…SCHUYLKILL RIVER GREENWAY ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · EnvironmentSCHUYLKILL …ANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EnvironmentANCHORAGE P…REGIONAL TRAIL CORPORATION — $27,000 · EnvironmentREGIONAL TR…Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation — $25,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF MADISON COUNTY PARKS & TRAILS — $20,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HERRING RUN PARKS INC — $17,500 · Environment+14 more — $163,000 · Environment+14 moreHACE — $89,500 · Community ImprovementDELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT CORPORATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementThe Urban Oasis Inc — $38,500 · Community ImprovementNORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $27,250 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF THE NORTHERN RAIL TRAIL — $25,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF SWANNANOA INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ELIZABETH RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Community ImprovementACTION GREENSBORO — $15,000 · Community ImprovementDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION — $15,000 · Community ImprovementHAVENWOODS NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP INC — $14,250 · Community Improvement+8 more — $63,540 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $51,500 · PhilanthropyCHADRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyMIAMI RIVER FUND INC — $18,000 · PhilanthropyCLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyMONTGOMERY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyMOUNTAIN HERITAGE INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHWEST RENEWAL FOUNDATION OF HIGH POINT INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureYellowstone Historic Center Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN TRAILS & GREENWAYS ALLIANCE — $8,500 · Arts & CultureDELAWARE AND LEHIGH NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureOHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureHBCUS OUTSIDE INCORPORATED — $49,500 · Youth DevelopmentRemember Us Urban Scouts Inc — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCYCLES OF CHANGE — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,134,422Recreation & Sports$694,000Environment$487,500Community Improvement$378,040Philanthropy$144,500Arts & Culture$66,000Youth Development$64,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW JERSEY BICYCLE COALITION INC DBA D/B/A NEW JERSEY BIKE & WALK COALITION — $380,000 over 3y, 47% of budget30TH STREET INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR CORP — $263,750 over 5y, 20% of budgetHACE — $89,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $51,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHBCUS OUTSIDE INCORPORATED — $49,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetWyoming Pathways — $40,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetGROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Urban Oasis Inc — $38,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL ROAD HERITAGE CORRIDOR — $36,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetARMSTRONG TRAILS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWashington Area Bicyclist Association — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHADRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSTATE FORESTS TRUST OF OREGON — $30,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCHUYLKILL RIVER GREENWAY ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION — $27,600 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $27,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREGIONAL TRAIL CORPORATION — $27,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGEARIN UP BICYCLES — $27,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetEast Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay — $26,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN HERITAGE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMissouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NORTHERN RAIL TRAIL — $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MARKET INC — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF SWANNANOA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Kensington Community Development Corp — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPaso del Norte Community Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MADISON COUNTY PARKS & TRAILS — $20,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMIAMI RIVER FUND INC — $18,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBIKEMORE INC — $18,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF HERRING RUN PARKS INC — $17,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBay Area Ridge Trail Council — $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWEST CREEK CONSERVANCY — $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParks & Trails New York Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHELBY FARMS PARK CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLAY MARIN — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetARIZONA TRAIL ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MERRIMACK RIVER GREENWAY TRAIL — $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCAPITAL AREA GREENBELT ASSOC INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH RIVER TRAIL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetACTION GREENSBORO — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGIA BIKES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBRONZEVILLE TRAIL TASK FORCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetDELAWARE RIVER CITY CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

National Fish and Wil…Rei Cooperative Actio…AARPClif Family FoundationGreater Milwaukee Fou…The William Penn Foun…National Forest Found…Outride fka The Speci…Abc Foundation Charit…Justice OutsideJoseph and Vera Zilbe…National Recreation a…
National Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC23× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · AARP · Clif Family Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · National Forest Foundation · Outride fka The Specialized Foundation · Abc Foundation Charitable Trust · Justice Outside · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · National Recreation and Park Association

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 Rails to Trails Conservancy 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • New Jersey Tree Foundation — 100% of income from government
  • Miami River Fund Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Southeast Community Development Corporation Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Trailkeepers of Oregon — 19% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Groundwork Jacksonville Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 166 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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