Maryland · Nonprofit
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,860,833 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($825,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Rock Creek Conservancy Inc does
Mission
Restore Rock Creek and its parklands as a natural oasis for all people to appreciate and protect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Restoration: In 2025, Rock Creek Conservancy strengthened its leadership in people-powered urban forest restoration while advancing landscape-scale resilience efforts. Restoration expanded across seven mini-oases and three pilot forest resilience sites totaling more than 170 acres, in partnership with the National Park Service to address invasive plants, climate stress, and forest decline. In Montgomery County, the Conservancy continued its forest restoration work with the continued efforts of the Rock Creek Conservation Corps. Continued on Schedule O.
$1,760,176 spentof which $206 as grants85% of program spendingEnvironmental Stewardship: Over 1,000 volunteers turned out for annual Conservancy events such as the Extreme Cleanup and the Weed Wrangle, to clean up litter and remove invasive plants from sites across the watershed in DC and Montgomery County. The Conservancy hosted 255 volunteer events and 21 leadership trainings, providing over 4,600 community stewards the opportunity to clear trash, monitor water quality, and remove invasive plants that are smothering native trees and plants that give food and refuge to wildlife. Through the Rock Creek Conservation Corps program, the Conservancy engaged over 500 students and provided summer work experience for 17 students from schools in underserved communities in both DC and Montgomery County. Continued on Schedule O.
$301,950 spentof which $6 as grants15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,062,126.
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 $1.7M to $2.6M (+51%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 15% · 2022 25% · 2023 16% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Rock Creek Conservancy 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. 2 of the last 9 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
Dan Puskar
Executive Director
Board chair
Pavan Khoobchandani
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $52k → $518k.
15 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Rock Creek Conservancy Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 Rock Creek Conservancy Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 38% · 2019 29% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 42% · 2023 21% — 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
41% of Rock Creek Conservancy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Rock Creek Conservancy Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Rock Creek Conservancy Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.5M
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 Rock Creek Conservancy 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rock Creek Conservancy 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 Rock Creek Conservancy Inc?
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,860,833 to it, the largest being THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION ($825,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rock Creek Conservancy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $3,860,833 in grants to Rock Creek Conservancy Inc, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rock Creek Conservancy Inc?
- THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $825,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rock Creek Conservancy 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 66 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