How much does The Corps Network give?

The Corps Network reported 69 itemized grants totaling $12,071,500, out of $12,345,505 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Corps Network fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Youth Development (22%), Employment (19%).

Who are The Corps Network's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Conservation Legacy ($7.9M), Northwest Youth Corps ($6.4M), Franklins Promise Coalition Inc ($5.6M).

Does The Corps Network fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Corps Network?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Forest Foundation, National Park Foundation.

Where is The Corps Network based?

The Corps Network is based in DC.

The Corps Network

The Corps Network at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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.

$12M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.5M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$14MYouth Development$10.0MEmployment$8.6MHuman Services$8.5MEducation$2.8MCommunity Improvement$514kPhilanthropy$486kAnimals$244kOther$0

02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 69 grants below total $12,071,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,345,505 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $274,005 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 · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $21k
$10k–50k31 grants · $860k
$50k–250k24 grants · $2.6M
$250k+11 grants · $8.6M

$50,259

Median grant

States reached

$6.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Conservation Legacy	$1,489,389
Franklin's Promise Coalition	$1,320,768
Northwest Youth Corps	$1,281,087
Civic Works	$1,074,089
Greater Miami Service Corps	$824,857
Green City Force	$727,571
greenspaces	$445,822
American Youth Works	$417,809
Heart of Oregon	$393,836
White River Natural Resources Conservation District	$325,451
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture PASA	$251,779
Operation Fresh Start Inc	$236,362
PowerCorps Boston	$228,631
Vermont Youth Conservation Corps	$183,407
Youth Conservation Corps	$171,240

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $11.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$55M · 53 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$55M

$552k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%

+35%

Still filing today

79%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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

CONSERVATION LEGACY
9× · 2017–2025 · $7.9M · revenue +161%
NY
NORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS
9× · 2017–2025 · $6.4M · revenue +85%
FP
FRANKLINS PROMISE COALITION INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +53% · 65% of their budget

Funded once

GY
GREENING YOUTH FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $465k · revenue +35%
ES
Eastern Sierra Conservation Corpsgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +241%
NB
NEW BRUNSWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +95%

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.

Conservation Corps North Bay Inc

To develop youth and conserve natural resources for a resilient, sustainable, and equitable community.

Employment

Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment

Montana Conservation Corps Inc

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.

Civil Rights

Los Angeles Conservation Corps

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.

Employment

San Francisco Conservation Corps

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

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Groundwork Ohio River Valley Inc

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.

Community Improvement

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals

Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International

Catron County Citizens Groupinc

Training/create jobs/conversation

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Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment

Northwoods Stewardship Center

Connecting people and place through science, education and action.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Corps; the most unlike its peers is Square Mile Community Development. 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

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 95 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

72/76

Grantees still filing

51/76

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Employment$11,925,974Human Services$11,219,794Youth Development$10,355,119Other$10,720,657Environment$5,547,352Education$5,422,954Community Improvement$2,313,967

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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 Fish and Wildlife FoundationDC40.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Corps Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Corps Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

6report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$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