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Capitol Hill Community Foundation

The Capitol Hill Community Foundation draws on the generosity and idealism of our neighborhood to help build a stronger and more caring community, a place where families can flourish and where every resident can share in a better future.

$763k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$1.0MArts & Culture$495kYouth Development$138kHousing & Shelter$106kPhilanthropy$66kHuman Services$64kEnvironment$35kFood & Nutrition$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $568,422 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $763,324 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $194,902 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$10,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Eastern High School PTO$67,919
Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc$40,000
Capitol Hill Cluster School PTA$34,060
Old Naval Hospital Foundation$34,000
Mosaic Theater Company of DC$30,500
For the Love of Children$21,000
Capitol Hill Village$18,764
Everyone Home DC$18,000
Van Ness Elementary School PTO$17,500
Payne Elementary School PTA$17,300
Eliot-Hine Middle School PTO$17,000
Little Lights Urban Ministries$16,500
Women in Film & Video$15,000
The Camera 1 Group Inc$15,000
Chiarina$14,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Service Never Sleeps: $9k → 9%Greater DC Diaper Bank: $6k → 14%Everyone Home DC: $50k → 14%Everyone Home DC: $23k → 14%Everyone Home DC: $18k → 14%Everyone Home DC: $15k → 14%Greater DC Diaper Bank: $6k → 14%Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc: $40k → 14%For the Love of Children: $21k → 14%Capitol Hill Village: $19k → 14%Reach Education Inc: $18k → 14%Capitol Hill Village: $13k → 14%Reach Incorporated: $9k → 14%Sasha Bruce Youthwork: $9k → 14%Capitol Hill Village: $6k → 14%For Love of Children: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 38 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
14

Total granted

$1.8M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-7%

Still filing today

92%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TO
    THE OLD NAVAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $134k · revenue +63%
  • CH
    CAPITOL HILL CLUSTER SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $114k · revenue +135% · 30% of their budget
  • EH
    Everyone Home DC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $106k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • RW
    READY WILLING & WORKING INC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • CC
    CHAMPS CAPITOL HILL ASSOCIATION OF MERCHANTS AND PROFESSIONALS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MR
    MERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education
2
D C Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative Inc

DC Collaborative is a service organization for arts and humanities supporters who are committed to advancing equitable access for DC public school students.

Arts & Culture
3
Corporation of the Washington Latin School

To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.

Education
4
Imagination Stage of Washington Dc Inc

Imagination stage of washington, dc, inc. empowers all young people to discover their voice and identity through performing arts education and professional theatre.

Arts & Culture
5
Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers Douglas MacArthur Elementary School Pta

The PTA's mission is to make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children. As the MacArthur Elementary PTA, we provide support and services to students, teachers and…

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6
District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture
7
Horace Mann Elementary School Pta

Support educational programs at horace mann elementary school in washington dc

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8
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
9
Empowered

Our mission is to promote the ideas wellbeing and retention of DCs educators amplifying their solutions to create a more just and equitable education system for all DC students and families.

Education
10
Children'schorusofwashington

Childrens chorus of washington nurtures artistic excellence and empowers young singers by celebrating our shared humanity and the value of every voice.

Arts & Culture
11
Dc Independent Film Festival

The DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) showcases and supports local and international filmmakers and their work across the genres of fiction, animation, experimental and documentary through screening, discussion, professional…

Arts & Culture
12
Breakthrough Montessori Public Charter School

The mission of breakthrough montessori public charter school is to provide families in washington, dc with a fully implemented, public montessori program that enables children to develop within themselves the power to shape their lives and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Inspired Teaching and the most unlike its peers is Payne Elementary School Parents Tea. 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 17 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%38%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr15%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%30%5–10yr18%27%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr16%6%35–55yr15%2%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
3/59
the rest of the field
12%
1,597/12,942

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 59 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
29/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EASTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PTO — $378,591 · EducationEASTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PTOCAPITOL HILL CLUSTER SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION — $114,460 · EducationCAPITOL HILL CLUSTER SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATIO…CENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING — $57,000 · EducationCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHINGPayne Elementary School Parents Tea — $54,950 · EducationPayne Elementary School Parents TeaELIOT-HINE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO — $47,263 · EducationStory of Our Schools — $42,000 · EducationTWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $37,245 · EducationVAN NESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION — $32,745 · Education+11 more — $193,160 · Education+11 moreTHE OLD NAVAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $134,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OLD NAVAL HOSP…CHIARINA — $51,500 · Arts & CultureCHIARINAMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC — $39,000 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC THEATER COM…CAPITOL HILL JAZZ FOUNDATION — $32,850 · Arts & CultureCAPITOL HILL JAZZ …TAFFETY PUNK THEATRE INC — $21,000 · Arts & CultureTAFFETY PUNK THEAT…Young Playwrights Theater — $11,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreEveryone Home DC — $105,500 · Human ServicesEveryone Home …SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC — $48,500 · Human ServicesSASHA BRUCE YO…CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE — $37,314 · Human ServicesCAPITOL HILL V…REACH EDUCATION INC — $27,000 · Human ServicesREACH EDUCATIO…FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN — $26,500 · Human ServicesFOR LOVE OF CH…GREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $11,000 · Human Services+1 more — $8,500 · Human ServicesEast City Art Foundation — $46,300 · OtherEast City Art …CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP — $30,250 · OtherCAPITOL HILL A…MINER PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION — $27,702 · OtherMINER PARENT T…GUERRILLA GARDENERS OF WASHINGTON DC — $26,500 · OtherGUERRILLA GARD…Congressional Chorus — $21,500 · OtherCongressional …WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC — $15,000 · OtherWOMEN IN FILM …The Camera 1 Group Inc — $15,000 · OtherThe Camera 1 G…CHAMPS CAPITOL HILL ASSOCIATION OF MERCHANTS AND PROFESSIONALS — $10,000 · OtherCAPITOL RIVERSIDE YOUTH SPORTS PARK — $13,000 · OtherREADY WILLING & WORKING INC — $12,500 · OtherMERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION — $10,000 · Other+6 more — $37,860 · Other+6 moreLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc — $93,000 · Youth DevelopmentSERVE YOUR CITY — $65,500 · PhilanthropyTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $7,000 · PhilanthropyTable For Two USA — $32,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$957,414Arts & Culture$324,850Human Services$264,314Other$265,612Youth Development$93,000Philanthropy$72,500Food & Nutrition$32,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEASTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PTO — $378,591 over 5y, 88% of budgetTHE OLD NAVAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $134,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetCAPITOL HILL CLUSTER SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION — $114,460 over 5y, 30% of budgetEveryone Home DC — $105,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc — $93,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSERVE YOUR CITY — $65,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING — $57,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetPayne Elementary School Parents Tea — $54,950 over 5y, 29% of budgetCHIARINA — $51,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC — $48,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetELIOT-HINE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO — $47,263 over 3y, 31% of budgetMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC — $39,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCAPITOL HILL VILLAGE — $37,314 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $37,245 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITOL HILL JAZZ FOUNDATION — $32,850 over 3y, 12% of budgetVAN NESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION — $32,745 over 3y, 14% of budgetTable For Two USA — $32,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP — $30,250 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetEVERYBODY WINS DC INC — $28,700 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJO WILSON ES PTA — $28,191 over 4y, 13% of budgetREACH EDUCATION INC — $27,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN — $26,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPTA John Tyler Elementary DC — $25,900 over 3y, 18% of budgetLive It Learn It — $24,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCongressional Chorus — $21,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTAFFETY PUNK THEATRE INC — $21,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFriends of SWS Inc — $20,850 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetLUDLOW-TAYLOR PTO — $18,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetWOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCAPITOL RIVERSIDE YOUTH SPORTS PARK — $13,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $11,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAN OPEN BOOK FOUNDATION — $11,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWASHINGTON URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC — $11,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYoung Playwrights Theater — $11,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERCHANT ROW ASSOCIATION CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetService Never Sleeps — $8,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAnacostia Riverkeeper Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJOY OF MOTION DANCE CENTER INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL UNION MISSION — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT BRENT PARENT TEACHERS ASSOCIATION — $6,150 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOYE PALAVER HUT INC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetKINDRED INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON BACH CONSORT INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCapital City Symphony — $5,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…United Way of the Nat…Humanities Council of…Nora Roberts Foundati…Dimick Foundation Joh…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…Flamboyan Foundation …Eugene M Lang Foundat…Richard E & Nancy P M…Harman Family Foundat…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC58× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Humanities Council of Washington DC · Nora Roberts Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Flamboyan Foundation Inc · Eugene M Lang Foundation · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · Harman Family 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 Capitol Hill Community Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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