Maryland · Nonprofit
CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC
CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,180 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($40,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Barbara L Thomas Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Kent County Inclocal
- Waterkeeper Alliance Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $111k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION 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
CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 70% · 2019 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 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.
How long its funders stay
7% of CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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 FY2021, 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
69% of CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION 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. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Barbara L Thomas Foundationlocalportfolio matchFL · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Kent County InclocalMD · funds 13 organizations near you
- Waterkeeper Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pennsylvania Horticultural Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Pennsylvania Watershedsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nonprofit Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Watershed Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abahac Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Orvis Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Environmental Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hedgelawn Foundation InclocalMD · funds 14 organizations near you
- Kent Cultural Alliance InclocalMD · funds 5 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
87% 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 CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC?
- CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,180 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($40,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $143,180 in grants to CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC?
- THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing