· Private foundation
Aid Association for the Blind of the District of Columbia C/O
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER | $40,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE NOW | $34,050 |
| PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OF METRO WASHINGTON | $32,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY INC | $30,000 |
| WASHINGTON LAWYERS COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS & URBAN AFFAIRS | $22,000 |
| AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC | $20,000 |
| IONA SENIOR SERVICES | $10,000 |
| LISNER LOUISE DICKSON HURT HOME | $5,000 |
| OMNIUM CIRCUSENSE INC | $1,000 |
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, $249k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WNWASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $524k · revenue +48%
- DCDC CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING5× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +20%
- INIndependence Now Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $90k · revenue +95%
- TGThe George Washington Universitygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +30%
- FOFRIENDS OF COMPASSone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
To serve all north carolinians with significant disabilities by ensuring they can live independently in a barrier-free community of their choice through consumer-controlled, self-directed services.
Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…
Preservation of civil liberties through advocacy and lobbying.
To advance international disability rights and inclusive development and to build bridges among the u.s. and foreign governments, disability and human rights communities, and the private sector through strategic advocacy, convening, and…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
To improve the quality of life for all persons with intellectual disabilities and their families through supports and advocacy.
Mission Advocated disability voice, choice, and independenceVision Universal access and justice
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
The mission of the federal city council is to focus the creativity, talent and resources of washington dc's business and civic leaders on washington, dc's biggest challenges and opportunities.
Disability empowerment center helps community members find and access the resources they need to lead successful and independent lives.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Association of People With Disabilities and the most unlike its peers is Omnium Universe Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 WASHINGTON NATIONAL EYE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND URBAN AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds DC CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds Independence Now Inc ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds Iona Senior Services ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds OMNIUM UNIVERSE FOUNDATION 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.
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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 Aid Association for the Blind of the District of Columbia C/O 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.
- Independence Now Inc — 37% 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.