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DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS

DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.7M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$142k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Delaware Association of Conservation Dis does

Mission

To help promote the three conservation districts in the state of delaware.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. National envirothon competition - the dacd helps to support the winning delaware envirothon team travel and compete in the national envirothon competition.

    $17,559 spent
    0% of program spending
  2. Delaware envirothon competition - the dacd helps to support teh delaware envirothon competition where high-school, 4-h, and ffa teams come together to compete in the enviromental testing on various topics to see who can attain the top score in testing. The winning team is then eligible to attend the national envirothon.

    $27,517 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. To provide grant funding to delaware conservation districts to support their programs.

    $6,603,808 spentof which $6,603,808 as grants
    98% of program spending
  4. Various other activities, administrative and occupancy expenses related to programs

    $70,005 spent
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,718,889.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($159k)2021 Revenue 60 ($2.1M) Expenses 60 ($2.1M) Net assets 106 ($169k)2022 Revenue 116 ($4.1M) Expenses 117 ($4.1M) Net assets 105 ($167k)2023 Revenue 134 ($4.8M) Expenses 135 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($158k)2024 Revenue 185 ($6.6M) Expenses 187 ($6.6M) Net assets 92 ($146k)2025 Revenue 189 ($6.7M) Expenses 191 ($6.7M) Net assets 90 ($142k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (189)Expenses (191)Net assets (90)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $169k to $328k (+95%).

$159k
$169k
$328k
$387k
$249k
$214k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 99% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’20
$10k
’21
−$2k
’22
−$9k
’23
−$12k
’24
−$4k
’25
0.3
months of
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

Jennifer Nelson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed434444
Joined·+1+1+0+2+0
No longer listed·20020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

From the IRS filings of DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS’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.

Where its funders are

DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 1 state in all.

MD

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Delaware out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS has grown faster than half of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $775k on record.

Federal$775k
grants $775kcontracts $0
23
24
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$775k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS

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 Delaware

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

DE

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Questions and answers

Who funds DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS?
DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS?
THE KEITH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DIS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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