Launching Chesapeake Region’s Philanthropy Hub

The hub will be launched on December 2nd, 2025! Access to Chesapeake Bay Funders Network Members will be available for the next year.

The Chesapeake Region Philanthropy Hub is the most complete, insightful, and accessible data platform to understand how philanthropy in Chesapeake Region looks like.

The Hub offers funders, nonprofits, researchers, and journalists an in-depth analysis of the Chesapeake Region philanthropic sector's size, financial sustainability, staffing, and the institutional philanthropy that supports it.

It's quick and easy! If you are a member of the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network, Click to register

After answering a few simple questions, you'll land right in the Hub.

If you are not a member of the Chesapeake Bay Funders Network, join it, and you'll be able to enjoy the hub as well.

Impala transforms millions of public fillings (990 forms) into insightful profiles for every nonprofit and foundation in the U.S. Then, Impala's Ecosystems engine aggregates many of the information in these profiles into customized sub-sectors ("ecosystems") that describe philanthropy in Chesapeake Region. Ecosystems can be based on geography, cause areas, specific organizational characteristics, or any combination of these attributes.

Nonprofits and funders can upload any missing or recent 990s to enhance the dataset

Data is constantly being updated on a regular basis, as it becomes available.

When organizations update their profiles (e.g. programs, people, impact), this data is available immediately. Any 990s uploaded by nonprofits or funders are processed in several days. And as the IRS makes data available at scale for a particular fiscal year (e.g. 2023), we update our systems accordingly. That said, by encouraging organizations to upload their recent 990s, together we can bypass the longstanding issue of the IRS' data lag. As a result of our dynamic approach to gathering data, the Chesapeake Region Philanthropy Hub is the most complete and up-to-date source of information on the Chesapeake Region philanthropic field and the organizations in it.

Full access to the Chesapeake Region Hub, covering every nonprofit based in and foundation that is funding in Chesapeake Region.

This offer applies to all:

Active members of the Chesapeake Region Hub.

Most of Impala's data is sourced directly from Form 990s that have been released by the IRS. The data is supplemented by additional 990 uploads by users, self-reported profile information, and some third party sources. While we make insightful public and user-generated data available on the platform, your organization and individual data privacy and security are top priorities to us. To learn more, see our Help Center, Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy.

We believe transparency shouldn’t come at the cost of privacy.

Impala uses the latest data privacy and security tools. But more importantly, we put control in your hands by giving you the power to edit any information you add to your profile, at any time.

Absolutely not.
We’re extremely mindful that nonprofits have far more important work to do. That’s why we’ve pre-built your profile on Impala using data that's already publicly available, and signing-up and claiming this profile takes less than 2 minutes. Once you have completed to short onboarding steps, you'll have free access to Impala!

Reach out to support@impala.digital, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.