National Park Trust Inc
Rockville, MD · EIN 52-1691924. Reported 75 grants totalling $2,169,098 to 56 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For National Park Trust Inc, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C340) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 17% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 28% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $24,000. Half of what it reported fell between $16,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,745 and the largest $208,912. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Star Families Inc | Encinitas, CA | $363,250 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Department of the Interior National Park Service | Washington, DC | $180,686 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (taps) | Arlington, VA | $133,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Our Military Kids Inc | Oakton, VA | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Recreate Responsibility Coalition Co Embracing the Bear LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $61,845 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc | La Plata, MD | $52,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mississippi Park Connection | Saint Paul, MN | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Point Reyes National Seashore Association | Point Reyes Station, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | Charlestown, MA | $47,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust Inc | Lowell, MA | $45,600 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ice Age Trail Alliance | Cross Plains, WI | $45,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Naturebridge | Sausalito, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Zion Natural History Association | Springdale, UT | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bus for Outdoor Access and Teaching | Milwaukee, WI | $44,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors | Arlington, VA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rock Creek Conservancy Inc | Bethesda, MD | $39,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Accokeek Foundation Inc | Accokeek, MD | $34,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Great Basin National Park Fndn | Baker, NV | $33,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Akaka Foundation for Tropical for | Hilo, HI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Glen Canyon Outdoor Academy | Page, AZ | $26,912 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Appalachian Trail Conservancy | Harpers Ferry, WV | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Back Country Horsemen of Utah Southwest Chapter | Saint George, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chattahoochee National Park Conservancy Inc | Roswell, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chattahoochee Nature Center Inc | Roswell, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Eastern California Museum | Independence, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Haleakala Conservancy Inc | Makawai, HI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Redwood Parks Conservancy | Crescent City, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rocky Mountain Youth Corps | Taos, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rosie the Riveter Tr | Richmond, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Spark Sf Public Schools | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stroud Water Research Center Inc | Avondale, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Teaching Responsible Earth Education | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Timucuan Parks Foundation Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Monica Mountains Fund | Westlake Vlg, CA | $24,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Knox County Cisma | Vincennes, IN | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Living Classrooms Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Conservation Trust for North Carolina | Raleigh, NC | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Country Trail Association Incorporated | Lowell, MI | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trout Unlimited Inc | Arlington, VA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jefferson National Parks Association Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Student Conservation Association Inc | Arlington, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Hiking Society | Silver Spring, MD | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Continental Divide Trail Coalition | Golden, CO | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park Inc | Munfordville, KY | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation | Asheville, NC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arizona Trail Association | Tucson, AZ | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Great Smoky Mountain Institute | Townsend, TN | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Caring for Military Families the Elizabeth Dole Foundation | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Military Family Association Inc | Alexandria, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wilderness Louisville Inc | Fairdale, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Adams 14 School District | Commerce City, CO | $7,305 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Education for Change | Oakland, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley | Knoxville, TN | $6,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Girl Scouts of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hcst Explore Middle School | Jersey City, NJ | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
15 of 56 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Blue Star Families Inc
BLUE STAR FAMILIES KIDS TO PARKS DAY EVENT SPONSORSHIP - Department of the Interior National Park Service
REIMBURSEMENT OF APPRAISAL, SITE ASSESSMENT AND RELATED COSTS TO PREPARE FOR SETTLEMENT OF LAND PURCHASES. - National Park Service
FT. WASHINGTON PARK PROJECT (MD) - Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (taps)
GOLD STAR FAMILIES ENGAGING WITH NATIONAL FORESTS; GOLD STAR FAMILIES FISHING IN NATIONAL PARKS - Recreate Responsibility Coalition Co Embracing the Bear LLC
RECREATE RESPONSIBLY COALITION FISCAL SPONSORSHIP - Our Military Kids
MILITARY FAMILIES FISHING IN NATIONAL PARKS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 43 of 56 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | $178,643 | $8,652 |
| 2021 | 6 | $476,083 | $63,422 |
| 2022 | 41 | $906,100 | $23,800 |
| 2023 | 24 | $608,272 | $24,750 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
31% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $24,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Park Trust Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 401 East Jefferson Street 207, Rockville, MD, 20850.
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