· Public charity
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc
Restore Rock Creek and its parklands as a natural oasis for all people to appreciate and protect.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| One Montgomery Green | $22,500 |
| New Partners Community Solar | $15,000 |
| Lanham Boys and Girls Club | $12,500 |
| Audubon Naturalist Society | $11,000 |
| DC Greens | $10,000 |
| City Blossoms | $10,000 |
| Town of Landover Hills | $10,000 |
| Ward 8 Woods Conservancy | $10,000 |
| City of Hyattsvile | $9,975 |
| Laurel for the Patuxent | $7,850 |
| Montgomery County Dept of EP | $7,175 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +214% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OMONE MONTGOMERY GREEN INC2× · 2020–2021 · $44k · revenue +25%
- CBCITY BLOSSOMS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +214%
- W8Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +312%
Funded once
- OCONE COMMON UNITYone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +223%
- BGBETHESDA GREEN INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -1%
- CCC&O CANAL TRUST INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Greenspace works to make affordable housing and its neighborhoods green. greenspace's major program is with washington dc's department general services sustainability and energy division where we developed a strategic plan and program…
Land Conservation and Preservation.
People for the Park. A Park for the People. FoAP uses Restorative Park Engagement practices to host intergenerational programs that promote mental, physical, and social well-being, creating space for community building and healing. We also…
Green Cities Accord is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering climate resilient communities through investments in tree canopy infrastructure to improve environmental health, climate resilience, and equity in communities. We focus…
LFWAs mission is to restore and protect the Little Falls watershed, a vulnerable natural ecosystem nestled in Montgomery County, Maryland and Washington, D.C. It strives to restore and sustain the water quality, natural habitat, health and…
Friends of Cabin John Creek is a volunteer citizen group dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and stewardship of the Cabin John Creek watershed in Montgomery County, MD. Cabin John Creek flows through the communities of Rockville,…
To protect, restore and promote sound park management in the Washington DC metropolitan area. (See Continuation on Schedule O)
Arlington Garden is a climate-appropriate, habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nature Forward and the most unlike its peers is Lanham Boys Club Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 ONE MONTGOMERY GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PARTNERS COMMUNITY SOLAR CORP ↗
- Who funds CITY BLOSSOMS INC ↗
- Who funds Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds LANHAM BOYS CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds DC Greens Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE COMMON UNITY ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds C&O CANAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Casey Trees ↗
- Who funds ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL FOR THE PATUXENT ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Trust · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Crimsonbridge Foundation Inc · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Patagoniaorg · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Rock Creek Conservancy Inc 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.
- Accokeek Foundation Inc — 44% of income from government
- Nature Forward — 32% 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.