Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Earth Conservation Corps
Earth Conservation Corps (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,316,152 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE L SHIELDS FOUNDATION INC ($800,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $600k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $-143328
What Earth Conservation Corps does
Mission
To reclaim the Anacostia River, our communities and our lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Program- Job Readiness through River Restoration, Citizen Science, Environmental Education and Youth Media Arts Since 1992, Earth Conservation Corps has been dedicated to uplifting our Nations most valuable natural resources our young people and our environment. We engage youth ages 17-25 from stressed communities in our Nations Capital in transformative river restoration, citizen science, environmental education and youth media arts engagement. Our full time stipended volunteers corps members who commit to a 300-hour term of leading other volunteers in hard outdoor restoration work to deliver solutions to the urgent challenges of clean water and restoring degraded habitats. In FY25, 12 corps members led 564 volunteers who donated 1287 service hours. Corps members also engaged 4,405 students in Raptor Education and Conservation Programs. See Schedule O for Continuation. See Schedule O for Continuation.
$429,588 spent$20,552 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $429,588.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $419k to $1.8M (+320%).
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: 2018 7% · 2019 4% · 2020 8% · 2021 27% · 2022 25% · 2023 86% · 2024 16% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Earth Conservation Corps’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. 3 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $163k → $135k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Earth Conservation Corps’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
Earth Conservation Corps leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 Earth Conservation Corps.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 83% · 2019 56% · 2020 64% · 2021 75% · 2022 80% · 2023 74% — 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
33% of Earth Conservation Corps's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
Earth Conservation Corps draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $181k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Earth Conservation Corps runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Earth Conservation Corps receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$100k
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 Earth Conservation Corps
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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Earth Conservation Corps: 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 Earth Conservation Corps?
- Earth Conservation Corps (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,316,152 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE L SHIELDS FOUNDATION INC ($800,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Earth Conservation Corps have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,316,152 in grants to Earth Conservation Corps, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Earth Conservation Corps?
- THE GEORGE L SHIELDS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Earth Conservation Corps 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 21 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