Maryland · Nonprofit
MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC
MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $624,173 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($198,175). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $380k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $624k
- Net assets
- $522k
What Montgomery Countryside Alliance Inc does
Mission
To promote sound economic, land-use, and transportation policies that preserve the natural environment, open spaces, and rural lands in Montgomery County's Agricultural Reserve for the benefit of all Washington metropolitan area residents.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Land and Water Protection: The seventh year of the Re-Leaf the Reserve program saw more acres along stream buffers planted to improve water and air quality - the program has now planted 6000 trees. MCA partnered with Friends of Ten Mile Creek to maintain strong protections for our backup water supply. We partnered with other local civic organizations to ensure critical protections for farmland and our shared water supply through public testimony. MCA provided much needed outreach to residents on well and septic systems in the County during this year's prolonged drought as part of the Good Gift Groundwater Campaign. MCA worked with the owner of a proposed data center along the Potomac to fine tune their site plan to balance use of local water resources.
$123,220 spent48% of program spendingEducation: We conducted tours of local farms and water quality monitoring sites for local high school students. The 2025 Royce Hanson Award honored the Montgomery County Parks Department for its work protecting parkland and to celebrate the creation of the new Royce Hanson Conservation Park. The Good Gift Groundwater campaign expanded educational efforts regarding the Piedmont Sole Source Aquifer. We conducted educational outreach including interactive sessions with our Enviroscape model at schools and events along with webinars about protecting groundwater at the household and community level. MCA also conducted a webinar about balancing solar arrays with farming in the County.
$78,713 spent30% of program spendingFarmer Support: Since 2011 MCA has matched 40 new or expanding farmers with long term leases on local land through our Land Link program- now totaling over 500 acres of matches. 2025 saw 2 matches, joining the majority that are growing some or all of their produce for food banks. Staff offered presentations on Land Link to community gardening groups. We promoted local food products and CSA programs and continued to grow our producers listserve to help farmers share knowledge and equipment. MCA worked to limit the impact of a statewide law that would site solar arrays on prime protected farmland. MCA conducted a Community Share Along event - a listening session for farmers, residents, and local leaders to discuss issues impacting the Agricultural Reserve.
$56,607 spent22% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $258,540.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $151k to $307k (+103%).
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 68% · 2021 57% · 2022 40% · 2023 39% · 2024 9% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% 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
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
Caroline K Taylor
Executive Director
Board chair
Michael Rubin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $54k → $128k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE 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
MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 60% · 2019 77% · 2020 59% · 2021 50% · 2022 32% · 2023 36% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
67% of MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC?
- MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC (Maryland) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $624,173 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($198,175). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $624,173 in grants to MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $198,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE 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.
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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 15 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