Maryland · Nonprofit
CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL
CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,955 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($294,560). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $543k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $446k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council does
Mission
The Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council is a coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to educating the region about sustainable landscaping and how this approach can benefit local waterways and the Chesapeake Bay. Through efforts such as the Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional certification program, the biennial Turning a New Leaf Conference, and other programs and resources, CCLC advances conservation landscaping practices that have significant ecological benefits through the Bay watershed.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The mission of CCLC is to educate and support landscape professionals to implement sustainable landscapes and green infrastructure practices for a healthy and resilient Chesapeake Bay. Through efforts such as the Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional (CBLP) Certification and the biennial Turning a New Leaf conference, CCLC advances conservation landscaping practices that have ecological benefits throughout the Bay watershed. Approximately 260 landscape professionals completed the requirements for CBLP certification in 2024, bringing the total number of certified pros over 1500.
$521,019 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $521,019.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $71k to $113k (+58%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 6% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Jamie Alberti
Executive chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $137k → $43k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL’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
CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% 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 CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
74% of CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL: 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 CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL?
- CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,955 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($294,560). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $445,955 in grants to CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL?
- THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $294,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHESAPEAKE CONSERVATION LANDSCAPING COUNCIL 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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