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CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 52-6065757 ANNAPOLIS, MD

Revenue 2024
$35,411,298
Expenses 2024
$37,408,233

Program services were 79.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C320
Classification
1280
Street
6 HERNDON AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (CBF) mission, simply stated, is to Save the Bay. See Schedule O for Continuation (page 48)

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (CBF) mission is to Save the Bay. See Schedule O.

  • Advocacy & RestorationThe Advocacy & Restoration Department's primary objective is to drive significant improvements in the health of Chesapeake Bay as measured by CBF's Bay Health Index. Consistent with the CBF strategic plan, this involves developing and recommending priorities for the organization's policy work, engaging our members and implementing restoration elements of the plan. The Program utilizes a combination of strategies to help achieve a reduction in Bay pollution, restoration of critical habitat, and better-managed fisheries. See Schedule O for Continuation (page 49)

    Expenses $17,438,557 · Grants $636,869 · Revenue $568,215

  • Education CBF's Education Department is responsible for leading students, teachers, and adults in hands-on, on-the-water, environmental education experiences about the Bay. Through education programs, our professional educators use innovative teaching methods to engage students in real-world issues and scientific inquiry, exciting and encouraging them to take action to protect our natural resources. Student Leadership courses during the summer further train student leaders from high schools across the region. See Schedule O for Continuation (page 49)

    Expenses $8,720,433 · Grants $31,313 · Revenue $578,596

  • Marketing & CommunicationsThe Marketing & Communications Department's charge is to market CBF and its policy agenda, educate and engage the public, and mobilize support for organizational priorities and Bay restoration efforts. Marketing & Communications also manages internal communications and public opinion research. See Schedule O for Continuation (page 50)

    Expenses $3,697,553 · Revenue $47,622

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Hilary H Falk

    President

    Total calculated
    $403,312
    From this org
    $367,595
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,717
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $353,362
    Bonus
    $148
    Other
    $14,085
    Deferred
    $14,085
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,632
    Filer's total
    $403,312

  • Otis S Jones

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ann Pelham

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Bruce R Bradley

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Joan P Brock

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • George B Clarke IV

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian Cobb

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Margaret M Freeman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alexandra Grayson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer E Green

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Harry S Gruner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ann D Horner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert A Kinsley II

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan D Manekin

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anne Mehringer

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mamie A Parker PHD

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Crystal Patterson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Nick Pomponi

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Samara Pyfrom

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christa Riepe

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nathanial J Rose

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kathryn Gilchrist Simpson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • J Sedwick Sollers III

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • J Alex Ward

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Denice Heller Wardrop

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $35,411,298
    Expenses
    $37,408,233
    Contributions
    $27,417,431
    Grants paid
    $668,182
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $36,221,171
    Expenses
    $35,057,375
    Contributions
    $29,421,478
    Grants paid
    $406,027
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $32,201,003
    Expenses
    $34,140,334
    Contributions
    $26,605,958
    Grants paid
    $314,928

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $37,482,212
    Expenses
    $31,537,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,747,119

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,431,085
    Expenses
    $29,437,892
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,261,468

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $37,635,927
    Expenses
    $28,916,631
    Assets (EOY)
    $126,294,841

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,836,973
    Expenses
    $29,280,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $118,702,708

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $35,240,656
    Expenses
    $26,492,732
    Assets (EOY)
    $116,825,477

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.