Maryland · Nonprofit
MAREC ACTION
MAREC ACTION (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $630,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($315,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MAREC ACTION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Lutheran Senior Services of Dover Inclocal
- E4thefuture Incportfolio match
- Clean Air Task Force Incportfolio match
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.
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.
30% of MAREC ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $60k → $90k.
From the IRS filings of MAREC ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
MAREC ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 53% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
MAREC ACTION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Lutheran Senior Services of Dover InclocalDE · funds 7 organizations near you
- E4thefuture Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean Air Task Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of the Eastern Shorportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Toxics Action Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Foundation for Responsible Angling Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emily Monk Davidson Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservative Energy Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joan W Jenkins Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MAREC ACTION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAREC ACTION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAREC ACTION?
- MAREC ACTION (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $630,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($315,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAREC ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $630,000 in grants to MAREC ACTION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAREC ACTION?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAREC ACTION 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 3funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing