Maryland · Nonprofit
THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC
THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,121,005 to it, the largest being THE KAHLERT FOUNDATION INC ($155,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What The Howard County Conservancy Inc does
Mission
To educate children and adults about our natural world, preserve the land and its legacy for future generations and model responsible stewardship of our environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Howard county conservancy is engaged in the preservation of rural and agricultural resources. The conservancy also provides educational programs designed to increase awareness and appreciation for our land resources. Mt. Pleasant is a 325-year-old farm now operated as a nature reserve and educational facility. Mt. Pleasant is located on 232 acres of rolling hills, with a variety of habitat and is ideally suited for nature study and exploration. The gudelsky environmental education center, on-site at mt. Pleasant, is howard county's first nature center. It is dedicated to educating children and adults about environmental stewardship and ecosystems. The conservancy focuses its programs on local animal and plant life found in the chesapeake bay watershed. The conservancy has been an educational partner with the howard county public school system since 2003 and has other partnerships with howard county master gardeners, howard county recreation & parks department, howard county bird club, howard county blacksmith guild and others.the howard county conservancy reaches more than 30,000 people each year through our environmental education programs for k-12th grade students. We also…
$3,552,942 spent$610,242 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,552,942.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.5M to $6.2M (+12%).
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: 2017 8% · 2018 9% · 2019 3% · 2020 0% · 2021 9% · 2022 24% · 2023 60% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC’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 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
Meg Boyd
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income fell $135k → $109k.
9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY 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
THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
59% 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 THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 24% · 2019 36% · 2020 24% · 2021 30% · 2022 38% · 2023 28% — 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
61% of THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
95% of THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY 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. $487k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $759k on record — $490k federal, $269k state.
- Department of Commerce$490k
- Grant$269k
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 THE HOWARD COUNTY 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HOWARD COUNTY 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 THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC?
- THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,121,005 to it, the largest being THE KAHLERT FOUNDATION INC ($155,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,121,005 in grants to THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOWARD COUNTY CONSERVANCY INC?
- THE KAHLERT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOWARD COUNTY 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.
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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 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing