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FOREVER MARYLAND INC

FOREVER MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,047 to it, the largest being THE HELENA FOUNDATION INC ($98,658). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$132k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$320k
Net assets
$88k
12/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Forever Maryland Inc does

Mission

Forever maryland promotes and supports the land conservation community, through education, advocacy, and outreach, to permanently protect working landscapes and healthy ecosystems for all.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Forever maryland is dedicated to the conservation of our state land, water, wildlife, and other natural values.values that can be experienced and cherished by everyone and will sustain healthy, vibrant, and economically resilient communities. Racism, injustice, and exclusion must never be found in or advantaged by our work. The principles of equality, justice, and inclusion should guide us all and will be honored by forever maryland.

    $156,047 spent$100,393 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $156,047.

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 ($847k) Expenses 100 ($426k) Net assets 100 ($431k)2021 Revenue 98 ($833k) Expenses 135 ($574k) Net assets 160 ($691k)2022 Revenue 54 ($454k) Expenses 161 ($687k) Net assets 106 ($457k)2023 Revenue 22 ($188k) Expenses 124 ($527k) Net assets 28 ($119k)2024 Revenue 21 ($180k) Expenses 43 ($185k) Net assets 26 ($114k)2025 Revenue 16 ($132k) Expenses 37 ($158k) Net assets 20 ($88k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (16)Expenses (37)Net assets (20)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 2022 to 2023, from $568k to $151k (−73%).

$438k
$747k
$568k
$151k
$138k
$112k
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 50% · 2021 87% · 2022 17% · 2023 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of FOREVER MARYLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 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.

$421k
’20
$260k
’21
−$233k
’22
−$338k
’23
−$6k
’24
−$26k
’25
8.5
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

Josh Hastings

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed111011191315
Joined·+1+1+9+0+6
No longer listed·20164
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $18k → $31k.

2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 FOREVER MARYLAND 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

FOREVER MARYLAND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

42% 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 FOREVER MARYLAND INC.

31%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 83% · 2020 47% · 2021 38% · 2022 58% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.

“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

57% of FOREVER MARYLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

60% of FOREVER MARYLAND INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

MT
WI
MD
DE
NC
DC
TX

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FOREVER MARYLAND INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−31% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FOREVER MARYLAND INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOREVER MARYLAND INC?
FOREVER MARYLAND INC (Maryland) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,047 to it, the largest being THE HELENA FOUNDATION INC ($98,658). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOREVER MARYLAND INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $320,047 in grants to FOREVER MARYLAND INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOREVER MARYLAND INC?
THE HELENA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $98,658 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOREVER MARYLAND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 16 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