· Public charity
Waterkeepers Chesapeake Inc
Organization mission: a coalition of independent programs working toprotect the waters of the chesapeake and coastal bays.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +18%
- BWBLUE WATER BALTIMORE2× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue -13%
- PRPotomac Riverkeeper Network2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- LALAND AND CULTURAL PRESERVATION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +57%
- CFCENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +20%
- CLCHESAPEAKE LEGAL ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +437%
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.
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.
Protect and Restore the Chesapeake Bay particularly the Severn River
To protect and restore the health and ecological integrity of the spokane river watershed and to defend the access and opportunity for all citizens to enjoy the benefits of a clean and healthy spokane river watershed.
Connect the people who live, work, and play on the severn river to restore and protect it for all of our communities
Wicomico Environmental Trust supports protecting the environment, with special emphasis on the Wicomico River, its tributaries, and the paleochannel, and other policies that preserve and protect nature in our county and the Chesapeake Bay…
The sassafras river association is dedicated to promoting and monitoring clean water, a balance among recreation, wildlife and economic activity, and an educated community that takes action to protect and restore the health of the…
To restore, protect and promote the Herring Run stream valley as a place where nature and neighbors thrive.
The baykeeper's mission is to protect, preserve, and restore the ecological integrity and productivity of the hudson-raritan estuary - one of the most urban estuaries on the planet. since 1989, the organization has served as a citizen…
Protects and restores the hudson river from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies.
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…
Scenic rivers land trust works with landowners and other partners to preserve natural and scenic areas in anne arundel county through landowner education and holding and facilitating land protection agreements.
The organization's mission is to protect, restore, and enhance the charles river and its watershed through science, advocacy, and the law. the organization develops science-based strategies to increase resilience, protect public health,…
The mission of the rockbridge area conservation council (rockbridge conservation or rc) is to promote and enhance the protection, sustainable use, and stewardship of our community's natural and cultural resources.
How this is measured
7 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: Chesapeake Bay Trust · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Waterkeepers Chesapeake Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waterkeepers Chesapeake Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Land and Cultural Preservation Fund Inc: 51% of income from government
How this is measured
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