Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DC NATIVES
DC NATIVES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,150 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $186k
What DC Natives does
Mission
The mission of DC Natives is to increase polinator habitats and create beauty for dc residents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Pollinator gardens. DC Natives worked with neighbors to build pollinator habitats in yards, balconies, and gardens. Each installed garden contributed to a larger pollinator pathway. The gardens fostered neighborhood collaboration and a deeper understanding of the role of pollinators. The plantings also created beauty that every neighborhood deserves. Our collaborative approach involves working with neighbors and incorporating their preferences for the style, location, and shape of their pollinator gardens. Plants and technical assistance are provided free of charge. DC Natives provided the plants at no-cost to the participant/host garden. In exchange, the participant gardener helped to prepare the soil and maintains the garden by watering and weeding the garden. The gardens are a vehicle to help build community connections-underscoring our shared environment and creating new relationships among neighbors. DC Natives used a community-driven approach to helping neighbors create pollinator habitats. In 2024 alone, DC Natives planted more than 77 native pollinator gardens around dc and we increased our presence in ward 8. This work involved the installation of over 1,500 plants. These…
$16,093 spent60% of program spendingBlock captain program. DC Natives leveraged a network of block captains across the city. Block captains served as ambassadors and provided hands-on garden assistance.each neighborhood and block captain is unique and roles varied. Most block captains helped recruit new participants, taught neighbors about pollinators, and helped gardeners prepare their soil. Block captains also encouraged gardeners with maintenance and weeding tips and facilitated connections between gardeners within and across neighborhoods in dc.
$10,728 spent40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,821.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $132k to $162k (+23%).
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.
100% of DC NATIVES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Thorne Rankin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DC NATIVES’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
DC NATIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 DC NATIVES.
“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
100% of DC NATIVES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DC NATIVES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like DC NATIVES
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
82%
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 DC NATIVES: 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 DC NATIVES?
- DC NATIVES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,150 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DC NATIVES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $31,150 in grants to DC NATIVES.
- Who is the largest funder of DC NATIVES?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DC NATIVES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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