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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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 39
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $568k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $67,919
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 40
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Capitol Hill Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 39 | $568k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $643k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $237k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $194k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $368k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Senior High School PTO | $378,591 | 5 | 88% |
| The Old Naval Hospital Foundation | $134,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Capitol Hill Cluster School Parent Teacher Association | $114,460 | 5 | 30% |
| Everyone Home DC | $105,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Little Lights Urban Ministries Inc | $93,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Serve Your City | $65,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Center for Inspired Teaching | $57,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Payne Elementary School Parents Tea | $54,950 | 5 | 29% |
| Chiarina | $51,500 | 3 | 10% |
| Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc | $48,500 | 2 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Capitol Hill Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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 · 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
How this is measured
About Capitol Hill Community Foundation
- How much does Capitol Hill Community Foundation give?
- Capitol Hill Community Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $568,422, out of $763,324 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Capitol Hill Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (25%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are Capitol Hill Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Eastern Senior High School PTO ($379k), The Old Naval Hospital Foundation ($134k), Capitol Hill Cluster School Parent Teacher Association ($114k).
- Does Capitol Hill Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Capitol Hill Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, United Way of the National Capital Area.
- Where is Capitol Hill Community Foundation based?
- Capitol Hill Community Foundation is based in DC.
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