Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc
Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $699,836 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($121,676). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $620k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $700k
- Net assets
- $277k
What Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc does
Mission
Ward 8 Woods Conservancy works to rejuvenate and enhance the beauty, ecological health, and public enjoyment of the more than 500 acres of forest in the Ward 8 section of Washington, DC. We engage residents as paid staff and as volunteers to restore the woodland ecology, build trails, and promote healthy and sustainable living. We use the woods as a tool for healing and empowerment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
PARK STEWARD PROGRAM - The Park Steward program provides income, meaningful work and paid training to residents who face barriers to employment. Park Stewards act as de facto caretakers for more than a thousand acres of forested land in some of the DC areas most challenged neighborhoods. In 2025, nine people passed through the program and worked a collective 2,986 hours. Together with volunteers, they removed 142,000 pounds of trash, including 1,159 tires and 6,451 filled bags. They also cut invasive vines from 1,612 trees and chopped down more than a thousand invasive bushes.
$157,525 spent60% of program spendingTRASH FREE DC. Trash-Free DC is a citywide campaign to reduce littering and trash pollution, funded by a grant from the DC Department of Energy and Environment and led by Ward 8 Woods. In 2025, we conducted litter surveys and community outreach to identify five high-litter neighborhoods across the city as targets for the programs efforts to change perceptions and habits. In addition to outreach in the target areas, our Outreach Coordinator has become a known presence at community meetings and events around Ward 8 and has been a visible spokesperson for the bottle bill campaign.
$52,508 spent20% of program spendingVOLUNTEER PROGRAM - In 2025, In 2025, Ward 8 Woods welcomed 614 volunteers at 37 volunteer events. Attendees at our two monthly clean-ups have regularly tended to streets along Shepherd Parkway and Suitland Parkway, while private groups tackled legacy trash in areas including stream valleys of Barnaby Run, across the line in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
$26,254 spent10% of program spendingADVOCACY PROGRAM. The advocacy of Ward 8 Woods staff carries weight because it comes directly from the front lines - sometimes literally. When we perform maintenance work that the government should do but doesnt, we gain credibility to push for better services. When we spend our days in the woods, lawmakers recognize our expertise. Our executive director has even testified before the DC Council while working in the woods, via Zoom, surrounded by trees and trash that illustrate his points. In 2025, he and other Ward 8 Woods staff delivered or submitted testimony for six DC Council hearings, attended 4 rallies, and endorsed 13 sign-on letters and petitions, They were also featured on local online, print, radio and TV outlets
$13,128 spent5% of program spendingForest-Based Learning Program. Our newest program connects Ward 8 youth to the land around them and promotes environmental ethics that will last a lifetime. Amid budget cuts and growing gaps in environmental education in DC schools, we offer something unique: immersive nature experiences in students own neighborhoods with no need for bus transportation and at no cost to schools or families. In 2025, we presented five spring and five fall lessons as part of an after-school program at Merrick Center. A forested hilltop behind the building serves as an outdoor classroom to examine soil, trees, and animals.
$13,127 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $262,542.
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 2024 to 2025, from $175k to $277k (+58%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 18% · 2023 10% · 2024 23% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Ward 8 Woods 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. 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.
Board chair
Mandy Katz
Board chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $82k → $107k.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
70% 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 Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 40% · 2023 23% — 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
29% of Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
56% of Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Ward 8 Woods 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Ward 8 Woods 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 Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc?
- Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $699,836 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($121,676). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $699,836 in grants to Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $121,676 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 25 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