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ROCK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC

EIN 20-3874333 BETHESDA, MD

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Revenue 2025
$2,853,507
Expenses 2025
$2,299,708

Program services were 89.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C27
Classification
1200
Street
7200 WISCONSIN AVE STE 500

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 500). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Restore Rock Creek and its parklands as a natural oasis for all people to appreciate and protect.

  • Restoration: The Conservancy is the voice of Rock Creek, speaking on numerous stormwater, combined sewer, litter, and other pollution issues throughout the year. The Conservancy engaged thousands of volunteers to remove litter, sample water quality, and restore forests throughout the year to restore Rock Creek and its parklands. RCC expanded its partnerships to inspect and maintain green infrastructure with DC to include Montgomery County. Building on its launch in 2022, the Carter Barron Alliance continued to educate the Rock Creek Community about the restoration efforts of the Carter Barron Amphitheater. The Conservancy led efforts this year to build fundraising capacity for this effort. The Conservancy also spent the year engaging subject matter experts to create the Forest Resilience Framework that will be used as a tool to expand restoration efforts in Rock Creek Park and beyond.

    Expenses $1,760,176 · Grants $206

  • Environmental Stewardship: The Conservancy continued people-powered restoration efforts across 33 acres of forest habitat, at five mini-oases in Rock Creek Park, a proof of concept for landscape-scale habitat restoration. Weekly volunteer events and training of volunteer leaders continued inside the outside of the park and RCC continued to provide summer work experience to students from schools in both DC and Montgomery County as part of the Rock Creek Conservation Corps (RC3) Events like the Extreme Cleanup and the Weed Wrangle, offered hundreds the opportunity to remove litter and invasive plants from the entirety of the watershed in DC and Montgomery County. Water quality and litter monitoring collaborations with volunteers and regional environmental organizations continued, and expanded to include salt monitoring. The Recreate Responsibly campaign continued to educate park visitors about ways to reduce their impact on park resources while enjoying outdoor recreation. A program series, Race, History, and Rock Creek, explores the intersection of those issues. The Conservancy continued its program, Summer in the Parks to introduce community members to the Conservancy and the National Park Service.

    Expenses $301,950 · Grants $6

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jonathan Pattee

    Sr Director Development & Com

    Total calculated
    $124,118
    From this org
    $111,993
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,125
    Hours/week
    40
  • Meghan Quirk-Herrera

    Interim Executive Until 425

    Total calculated
    $109,536
    From this org
    $98,993
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,543
    Hours/week
    40
  • Dan Puskar

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $93,011
    From this org
    $85,377
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,634
    Hours/week
    40
  • Tracy Bowen

    Interim Executive Until 725

    Total calculated
    $66,962
    From this org
    $61,978
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,984
    Hours/week
    40
  • Pavan Khoobchandani

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Ryan Davies

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Joel Elliot

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lisa Bolden

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kahlil Kettering

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kenneth Connolly

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Donna Potts

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Justin Kollinger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Marlene Hunt Moss

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rohan Patel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Molly Hill Patten

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Catherine Nagel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Amanda Leiter

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sherryl Newman

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Gwen Lohse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Billy Mann

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Julia Washburn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,853,507
    Expenses
    $2,299,708
    Contributions
    $2,521,927
    Grants paid
    $212
  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,853,507
    Expenses
    $2,299,708
    Contributions
    $2,521,927
    Grants paid
    $212
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,545,706
    Expenses
    $1,721,720
    Contributions
    $2,476,608
    Grants paid
    $1,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,205,484
    Expenses
    $2,054,712
    Contributions
    $2,171,773
    Grants paid
    $1,608
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,698,567
    Expenses
    $1,479,607
    Contributions
    $1,682,448
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,561,573
    Expenses
    $993,284
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,342,488
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $951,423
    Expenses
    $933,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $805,040
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,190,746
    Expenses
    $882,243
    Assets (EOY)
    $612,966
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $803,519
    Expenses
    $1,104,026
    Assets (EOY)
    $322,360
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $676,544
    Expenses
    $931,422
    Assets (EOY)
    $624,101
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $418,280
    Expenses
    $778,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $845,781
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,424,845
    Expenses
    $524,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,215,107
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $391,010
    Expenses
    $377,508
    Assets (EOY)
    $300,883
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $353,034
    Expenses
    $290,729
    Assets (EOY)
    $291,740
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $358,587
    Assets (EOY)
    $220,560

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.