· Private foundation
Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Washington MIddle School for Girls | $30,000 |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $30,000 |
| Holy Cross Health Foundation | $30,000 |
| Don Bosco Cristo Rey | $30,000 |
| San Miguel School | $30,000 |
| SOME | $15,000 |
| IONA Senior Center | $10,000 |
| Childrens Hospital National Med Ctr | $10,000 |
| Covenant House | $10,000 |
| Bread for the City Inc | $10,000 |
| Missionaries of Charity | $10,000 |
| Friendship Place | $10,000 |
| The Heights School | $10,000 |
| St Anns Infant and Maternity Home | $10,000 |
| Little Sisters of the Poor | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
41 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- HCHOLY CROSS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +118%
- FPFriendship Place6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +67%
- CUCENTRAL UNION MISSION6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TWThe Washington Washiington MIddle Sone grant, 2022 · $20k
- DBDon Bosco Cristo Rey Schoolone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TSTHE SHEPHERD FOUNDATION LTDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +105%
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.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Catholic charities of the archdiocese of washington is the area's leading provider of comprehensive human services, offered to individuals and families in need, through 47 programs in 29 locations in the district of columbia, montgomery,…
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
Christ House provides 24-hour comprehensive and compassionate care for people experiencing homelessness with acute medical needs in the District of Columbia and offers assistance in addressing critical issues to help break the cycle of…
Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Woodley house enables district of columbia residents with mental health disorders to live full and healthy lives with dignity by providing supportive housing and services.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
Pathways to housing dc prevents and ends homelessness for persons living with serious psychiatric disabilities and other complex health challenges.
The spanish catholic center, inc. is a social service agency, which provides assistance to the local hispanic community by offering a variety of services including civic and immigration, medical and dental, social educational and economic.
To help people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless seek, obtain, and retain employment and secure housing.
Low-income housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calvary Women's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jubilee Jumpstart. 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 61 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 HOLY CROSS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK STUDENT FUND ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ↗
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 · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Truist Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Ada Harris Maley Memorial Fund 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.
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% 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.