· Private foundation
1988 Irrev Cochrane Memorial Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON ENGLISH CENTER | $60,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON | $60,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $60,000 |
| SOME INC (SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT) | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN CHESTNUT LAND TRUST | $60,000 |
| ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| DISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING | $40,000 |
| L'ARCHE | $35,000 |
| MAMATOTO VILLAGE | $35,000 |
| FOOD & FRIENDS | $30,000 |
| ACADEMY OF HOPE | $30,000 |
| THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S | $30,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $305k · revenue +59%
- DADISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $260k · revenue +114%
- AWANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $235k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- FSFAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTHENING COLLAone grant, 2022 · $90k
- MCMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +30%
- SRSeabury Resources for Agingone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
The mission of leadingage is to be the trusted voice for aging. our 6,000+ members and partners include nonprofit organizations representing the entire field of aging services, 38 state associations, hundreds of businesses, consumer…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
To provide leadership in improving the health care system in the district of columbia; advocate for the interests of member hospitals as they support the interests of the community; and encourage health services research and education.
Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.
Low-income housing.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Greater Washington Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anacostia Watershed Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN CHESTNUT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ENGLISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LARCHE Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Seabury Resources for Aging ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds M STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH ↗
- Who funds A GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Association of American Medical Colleges · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 1988 Irrev Cochrane Memorial Tr funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.