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MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC

MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,799,038 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($3,180,703). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
$997k
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Maryland League of Conservation Voters Inc does

Mission

The Maryland League of Conservation Voters Inc. Leverages advocacy and voter activation to shape policies and elections for clean water, healthy air, and climate-resilient communities for voters in maryland.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Climate policy & justice: working in broad coalitions to promote inclusive public policy solutions for a just, healthy, climate-resilient future in maryland.

    $174,914 spent
    24% of program spending
  2. Voter education & elections: providing nonpartisan public education, resources and opportunities to foster civic engagement in maryland for a healthy environment. The nonpartisan outreach included hosting public educational forums so candidates could inform voters of their policy positions; nonpartisan voter-registration and get-out-the-vote efforts to boost civic engagement; and publishing information about polling locations and times for early voting.

    $167,626 spent
    23% of program spending
  3. Elected official engagement: providing a trusted, non-partisan resource on maryland's environmental policy for over 40 years. Advocated to pass legislation to protect the chesapeake bay and maryland's clean drinking water sources, to combat climate change, and to reduce the air pollution generated by idling school buses, by meeting with legislators and rallying the public to speak out on behalf of these issues.

    $247,795 spent
    34% of program spending
  4. Building latino environmental leadership in maryland through community outreach and education to thousands of youth and adult community advocates in specifically in baltimore city, baltimore county, prince georges county, montgomery county and throughout the state.

    $138,473 spent
    19% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $728,808.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($314k) Expenses 100 ($295k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2018 Revenue 196 ($615k) Expenses 102 ($300k) Net assets 931 ($353k)2019 Revenue 100 ($314k) Expenses 157 ($463k) Net assets 540 ($205k)2020 Revenue 182 ($573k) Expenses 116 ($343k) Net assets 1145 ($435k)2021 Revenue 220 ($692k) Expenses 143 ($422k) Net assets 1858 ($705k)2022 Revenue 359 ($1.1M) Expenses 286 ($843k) Net assets 2613 ($991k)2023 Revenue 376 ($1.2M) Expenses 354 ($1.0M) Net assets 2953 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 322 ($1.0M) Expenses 385 ($1.1M) Net assets 2629 ($997k)
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Revenue (322)Expenses (385)Net assets (2629)

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 $894k to $1.5M (+65%).

$119k
$590k
$425k
$601k
$894k
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.3M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
’17
$315k
’18
−$148k
’19
$229k
’20
$270k
’21
$286k
’22
$134k
’23
−$123k
’24
10
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

Kim Coble

Executive director

Board chair

Lynn Heller

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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No longer listed·0422121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $895k.

From the IRS filings of MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS 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

MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC.

84%
largest funder
95%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 92% · 2022 94% · 2023 68% — 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

40% of MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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

MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states in all.

IL
NJ
CA
MD
DC

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland 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

Organizations like MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS 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 Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 17%Fundraising 19%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC?
MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,799,038 to it, the largest being LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ($3,180,703). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,799,038 in grants to MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC?
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,180,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARYLAND LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC find more funders?
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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 11 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