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The Maryland Association of Soil Conservation Districts Incorporated

Mascd's mission is to promote practical and effective soil, water, and related natural resouces programs to all citizens through individual conservation districts on a voluntary basis through leadership, education, cooperation and local direction.

$107k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$26k
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 2025.

Environment$1.4MEducation$156kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $84,184, the rows itemized in this filing. The $107,184 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,000 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.
$17,374
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUEEN ANNE SCD$26,298
MPT FOUNDATION$18,250
KENT SCD$17,374
TALBOT SCD$12,262
SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SUSSEX CONSERVATION DIST: $85k → 10%KENT CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $26k → 11%TEAM AG INC: $66k → 9%RESOURCE ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS: $29k → 19%CARROLL SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $38k → 6%FREDERICK SOIL CONSERVATION DIST: $73k → 6%QUEEN ANNES SCD: $37k → 7%ST MARYS SOIL CONSERVATION DIST: $29k → 8%CECIL SOILS CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $16k → 10%TALBOT CO SOIL CONSERVATION DIST: $19k → 10%MPT FOUNDATION: $21k → 11%KENT COUNTY SOIL CONSERVATION DIST: $19k → 12%CAROLINE SCD: $15k → 13%GARRETT SCD: $14k → 15%DORCHESTER SCD: $21k → 15%ALLEGANY SCD: $16k → 18%SUSSEX CONSERVATION DIST: $15k → 10%KENT CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $23k → 11%CARROLL SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $35k → 6%FREDERICK SOIL CONSERVATION DIST: $16k → 6%QUEEN ANNES SCD: $36k → 7%ST MARYS SOIL CONSERVATION DIST: $15k → 8%TALBOT CO SOIL CONSERVATION DIST: $16k → 10%MPT FOUNDATION: $21k → 11%KENT SCD: $17k → 12%CAROLINE COUNTY SOIL CONS DISTRICT: $13k → 13%DORCHESTER SCD: $19k → 15%ALLEGANY SCD: $13k → 18%CARROLL SCD: $34k → 6%QUEEN ANNE SCD: $32k → 7%TALBOT SCD: $14k → 10%MPT FOUNDATION: $21k → 11%KENT SCD: $14k → 12%DORCHESTER SOIL CONSERVATION DIST: $18k → 15%CARROLL SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $32k → 6%QUEEN ANNE SCD: $26k → 7%TALBOT SCD: $12k → 10%MPT FOUNDATION: $21k → 11%DORCHESTER SCD: $14k → 15%CARROLL SCD: $22k → 6%QUEEN ANNE SCD: $21k → 7%MPT FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%CARROLL SCD: $16k → 6%QUEEN ANNES SOIL CONSERVATION DIST: $18k → 7%MPT FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%CARROLL SCD: $16k → 6%QUEEN ANNES SOIL CONSERVATION DIST: $15k → 7%MPT FOUNDATION: $18k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 14 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$1.3M
$272k

Still filing today

14%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • QA
    QUEEN ANNES SCD
    8× · 2017–2025 · $195k
  • CS
    CARROLL SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    7× · 2017–2023 · $194k
  • SC
    SUSSEX CONSERVATION DIST
    7× · 2017–2023 · $189k

Funded once

  • SC
    SUSSEX CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $73k
  • TA
    TEAM AG INC
    one grant, 2022 · $66k
  • RE
    RESOURCE ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $29k
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
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUEEN ANNES SCD: $194,649 · OtherQUEEN ANNES SCDCARROLL SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $193,917 · OtherCARROLL SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTSUSSEX CONSERVATION DIST: $188,693 · OtherSUSSEX CONSERVATION DISTKENT CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $137,358 · OtherKENT CONSERVATION DISTRICTTALBOT SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $96,287 · OtherTALBOT SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICTSUSSEX CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $73,225 · OtherALLEGANY SCD: $67,574 · OtherTEAM AG INC: $66,447 · OtherCAROLINE SCD: $65,951 · OtherGARRETT SCD: $59,605 · Other+17 more: $287,468 · Other+17 moreMPT FOUNDATION INC: $162,075 · Arts & CultureMPT FOUNDAT…
Other$1,431,174Arts & Culture$162,075

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMPT FOUNDATION INC: $162,075 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
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.

  • Who funds MPT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

National Association of Conservation DistrictsDC17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Maryland Association of Soil Conservation Districts Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maryland Association of Soil Conservation Districts Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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