Maryland · Nonprofit
THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC
THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $946,464 to it, the largest being The Ludwig and Nancy Sternberger Charitable Foundation ($203,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $643k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $946k
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What The Valleys Planning Council Inc does
Mission
Conserving open spaces; protecting baltimore county's agricultural, natural, historic and scenic resources; and working to promote a balanced and rational use of land for the benefit of present and future generations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Special projects: vpc's board of directors select various initiatives each year to address key issues and concerns. Each special project has a board sponsor who coordinates the fundraising and the efforts involved in the project. This program includes any special studies conducted by vpc.
$235,000 spent66% of program spendingLand use planning: this program encourages monitoring development plans submitted to the county by private developers; attending development plan review meetings and hearings; participating in government sponsored meetings for various projects and policy initiatives; informing members and affected landowners of pertinent proposals and issues; and analysis of overall activities and trends affecting land use in baltimore county.
$123,598 spent34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $358,598.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.5M to $3.0M (+17%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Renee Hamidi
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $69k → $143k.
7 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL 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
36% 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 VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 28% · 2019 41% · 2020 26% · 2021 23% · 2022 17% · 2023 17% — 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
68% of THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $338k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL 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 VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC?
- THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $946,464 to it, the largest being The Ludwig and Nancy Sternberger Charitable Foundation ($203,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $946,464 in grants to THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC?
- The Ludwig and Nancy Sternberger Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $203,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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