Connecticut · Nonprofit
KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC
KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,631,070 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($3,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Keep America Beautiful Inc does
Mission
Keep america beautiful, the nation's leading community improvement nonprofit, inspires and educates people to take action to improve and beautify their community environment. See schedule o for additional information.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Clean california - keep america beautiful is the lead subcontractor on a three-year caltrans clean california public education subcontract led by sagent. Kab, working closely with keep california beautiful and over a dozen local california-based kab affiliates, continues to deliver a variety of important outcomes for this project. Kab's qualitative and quantitative research efforts, including focus groups and litter surveys, have helped strengthen the messaging and effectiveness of the statewide clean california campaign. Kab also conducts community engagement to increase awareness of litter prevention and mitigation through coordinating with local partners to host a dozen community transformation cleanups and 15 litter demonstration projects, while also sharing community resources and disseminating thousands of individual cleanup kits to individuals and groups across the state. Kab and kcb also managed two years of a k-12 multimedia education contest, backed by educator outreach statewide. Kab has developed and conducted outreach for a clean california community designation program to reach 100 communities statewide. Kab partnered with iheart media on a paid media campaign…
$731,235 spent$435,884 earned by the program13% of program spendingCigarette litter prevention program - the cigarette litter prevention program (clpp) is one of keep america beautiful's signature national programs. It is designed to support local community improvement initiatives for reducing cigarette butt litter and providing butt recycling options. Since its establishment more than 20 years ago, this signature program has consistently cut cigarette butt litter by approximately half based on local measurements taken in the first four to six months after program implementation. Survey results also demonstrate that as communities continue to implement and monitor the program those reductions are sustained or even increased over time. Each year, keep america beautiful awards clpp grants to its affiliates, local governments, business improvement districts, downtown associations, parks and recreation areas, and other organizations dedicated to eradicating litter and beautifying their communities. Keep america beautiful has distributed more than $3 million in grant funding to support local implementation of the program in more than 1,800 communities nationwide.
$1,927,524 spentof which $1,411,571 as grants35% of program spendingGreat american cleanup - the keep america beautiful great american cleanup is the nation's largest community improvement program, which takes place annually during spring and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2023. In 2024, the great american cleanup began to evolve into the "greatest american cleanup for the country's 250th birthday." the great american cleanup prompts individuals to take greater responsibility for their local environment by conducting grassroots community service projects that engage volunteers, local businesses and civic leaders meeting needs the communities identify. The great american cleanup began as a litter cleanup initiative designed to aesthetically improve our environment by creating cleaner parks, streetscapes and public spaces through litter removal and elimination. To this day, community cleanups remain at the very heart of the campaign. In 2024, more than 42 million pounds of litter and recyclables were collected by volunteers throughout the country. They cleaned and improved over 73,000 parks, public lands, playgrounds, and trails in more than 34,000 events covering an area slightly larger than yosemite national park. Kab affiliate volunteers also…
$424,772 spent8% of program spendingAll other programs include the following:providing assistance to our local, statewide, and international affiliates to support their efforts in educating individuals about litter prevention and ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and properly manage waste materials.retreet: working together, keep america beautiful and retreet focus on a new kab strategic priority: community restoration and resiliency. We bring community volunteers together to form small teams, train them on how to effective plant native trees, and work to plant these trees in areas that have been impacted by natural disasters. Replanting and restoring our communities help keep them healthier and more resilient, literally growing deep roots to anchor and stabilize flood-prone areas, lessen erosion, and improve natural resiliency.national conference: the keep america beautiful national conference is a learning and sharing gathering open to our 700 affiliates around the country and beyond as well as their volunteers and stakeholders. Best practices are shared, sector innovation is explored and cohorts facing similar challenges and opportunities are brought together to maximize the value, efficiency and expertise of the…
$2,503,010 spentof which $6,900 as grants$303,414 earned by the program45% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,586,541.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $6.1M to $4.8M (−22%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 10% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC’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. 6 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Lawson
President & CEO
Board chair
Kara Calderon
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $41k → $988k.
10 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. 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
KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL 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
46% 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 KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 68% · 2019 48% · 2020 28% · 2021 48% · 2022 35% · 2023 30% — 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
20% of KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $83k on record — $50k federal, $33k state.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$50k
- CT$29k
- NJ$4k
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 KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC?
- KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,631,070 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($3,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $9,631,070 in grants to KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 48 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