Maryland · Nonprofit
BETHESDA GREEN INC
BETHESDA GREEN INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,106,284 to it, the largest being DIANA DAVIS SPENCER FOUNDATION INC ($620,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $341k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $170k
What Bethesda Green Inc does
Mission
Bethesda green works to locally accelerate the sustainable economy with a focus on innovation, impact, and community. We are an incubator, a connector, and a community partner. We accelerate green business startups into viable companies with triple bottom-line impact (people, planet, profit). We foster connections through the piloting and testing of innovative programs. We engage the local community through opportunities that inspire implementation of green solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Bethesda green is a nonprofit catalyst for sustainable economic growth and environmental stewardship in the dc, maryland, virginia region. We bring together entrepreneurs, community members, businesses, and government to create a more sustainable, resilient, and thriving future. At the heart of our work is the bethesda green innovation center, a hub for collaboration, education, and action. Our green business incubator supports early-stage and growth-stage companies developing innovative solutions to environmental and social challenges. Entrepreneurs receive mentorship, strategic connections, business resources, and opportunities to access investors and markets, helping them scale their impact. Through the green business certification program, we guide and recognize local companies for adopting best practices in governance, environmental stewardship, and community impact. This program fosters triple-bottom-line business models that benefit people, planet, and profit, while building a strong network of sustainability-minded leaders. Our green living and community engagement initiatives connect residents and neighborhoods with hands-on projects and education that promote sustainable…
$280,246 spentof which $4,500 as grants$22,676 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $280,246.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $481k to $334k (−31%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 53% · 2018 22% · 2019 25% · 2020 28% · 2021 44% · 2022 48% · 2023 59% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of BETHESDA GREEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dave Feldman
Executive director
Board chair
Sherry Altman
Chair & secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $51k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BETHESDA GREEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BETHESDA GREEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BETHESDA GREEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 91% · 2019 79% · 2020 79% · 2021 60% · 2022 71% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of BETHESDA GREEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of BETHESDA GREEN INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BETHESDA GREEN INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BETHESDA GREEN INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETHESDA GREEN INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BETHESDA GREEN INC?
- BETHESDA GREEN INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,106,284 to it, the largest being DIANA DAVIS SPENCER FOUNDATION INC ($620,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETHESDA GREEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,106,284 in grants to BETHESDA GREEN INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHESDA GREEN INC?
- DIANA DAVIS SPENCER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $620,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHESDA GREEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing