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The Potomac Conservancy Inc

Potomac conservancy safeguards the land and waters of the potomac river and its tributaries and connects people to this national treasure.

$1.5M
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$1,406,262
Largest grant, FY2021
$1,406,262
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$3.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations The Potomac Conservancy Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$1.5M50%
FY20191$11kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Environment$1.5M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Churchill Community Foundation$1,416,8872n/a
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley$125,000116%

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About The Potomac Conservancy Inc

How much does The Potomac Conservancy Inc give?
The Potomac Conservancy Inc reported 2 grants totaling $1,532,762 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does The Potomac Conservancy Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are The Potomac Conservancy Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Churchill Community Foundation ($1.4M), Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley ($125k).
Does The Potomac Conservancy Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The Potomac Conservancy Inc based?
The Potomac Conservancy Inc is based in MD.

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 2 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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