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The Corps Network
The Corps Network provides critical leadership to the Corps movement and our nations service and conservation corps as they harness the power of youth and young adults to tackle some of Americas greatest challenges and transform their own lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $8,296,313 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,756,326 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $460,013 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+9 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northwest Youth Corps | $1,009,825 |
| Franklin's Promise Coalition | $885,982 |
| Green City Force | $864,996 |
| Greater Miami Service Corps | $681,517 |
| Conservation Legacy | $607,610 |
| Civic Works | $362,844 |
| GEM Environmental | $292,672 |
| American Youth Works | $278,321 |
| Heart of Oregon | $275,232 |
| greenspaces | $241,754 |
| Southern Utah University | $222,801 |
| PowerCorps PHL | $221,348 |
| PowerCorps Boston | $217,710 |
| Operation Fresh Start Inc | $174,806 |
| City of La Porte | $163,224 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $9.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +63% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
CONSERVATION LEGACY8× · 2017–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +161%- NYNORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +85%
- FPFRANKLINS PROMISE COALITION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +53% · 65% of their budget
Funded once
- GYGREENING YOUTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $465k · revenue +35%
- TSTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $91k · revenue +70%
- ESEastern Sierra Conservation Corpsgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +241%
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.
To develop youth and conserve natural resources for a resilient, sustainable, and equitable community.
The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) inspires young people through hands-on conservation service to be leaders, stewards of the land and engaged citizens who improve their communities.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
To support the long-term revitalization and care of neighborhoods through local partnerships that equip residents, businesses and organizations to improve economic opportunity and community well-being.
The mission of the adventure west council, boy scouts of america, is to instill honor, integrity, and leadership in youth by engaging youth and families through fun, quality programs, outdoor experiences, and service to community.
The San Francisco Conservation Corps offers young people opportunities to develop themselves by developing their academic abilities and marketable job skills while addressing community needs through service work
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Conservation Corps and the most unlike its peers is Limitless Vistas Inc. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
55 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. 55 of the 64 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 CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS ↗
- Who funds FRANKLINS PROMISE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN CITY FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS ↗
- Who funds CIVIC WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI SERVICE CORPS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMB COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds Limitless Vistas Inc ↗
- Who funds MESA YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES COMMUNITY CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSPACES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN YOUTH CORPS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRAINING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds G E M ENVIRONMENTAL NFP ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST AMERICA DELAWARE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Native American Advancement Corporation ↗
- Who funds HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT FOR THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE WORK GROUP INC ↗
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: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · National Forest Foundation · National Park Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Youthbuild Global Inc · American Forests · Service Year Exchange Inc · The Outdoor Foundation · National Environmental Education and Training Foundation Inc · Colorado Youth Corps Association · National Recreation Foundation Incorporated · National Wildlife Federation
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 The Corps Network 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northwest Youth Corps — 100% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc — 63% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- The Work Group Inc — 39% of income from government
- Greater Miami Service Corps — 36% of income from government
- Native American Advancement Corporation — 35% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Training Works Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% 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.