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Center for Nonprofit Advancement

The CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ADVANCEMENT strengthens, promotes, and represents nonprofit organizations throughout the greater washington region so that they can better meet the needs of their communities.

$764k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$337kCommunity Improvement$212kArts & Culture$207kHuman Services$150kRecreation & Sports$140kEducation$98kHousing & Shelter$88kEmployment$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 43 grants below total $595,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $764,263 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $169,263 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.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAM O LOCKRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
WASHINGTON DC ALUMNAE CHAPTER DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY INC$25,000
THE TRIGGER PROJECT$25,000
SHINING STARZ INC$25,000
SCHOLARCHIPS INC$25,000
BLACK WOMEN THRIVING EAST OF THE RIVER$25,000
DC SCORES$25,000
FRESH WIND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$25,000
WELL-READ BLACK GIRL INC$25,000
THE TRARON CENTER$25,000
YAAY ME INC$15,000
OPEN GOAL PROJECT$15,000
METROBALL YOUTH OUTREACH$15,000
ANACOSTIA AMP OUTREACH EMPOWERMENT CENTER$10,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY OUTWARD BOUND$10,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUNS DOWN FRIDAY: $25k → 11%NATIONAL CENTER OF CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $10k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $20k → 14%THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $10k → 8%THE STAND FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE TRARON CENTER: $25k → 14%THE GIVELAND FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%MUTE THE VIOLENCE DC: $10k → 14%MUTE THE VIOLENCE: $10k → 14%NETWORK FOR VICTIM RECOVERY OF DC: $7k → 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.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$209k · 7 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
73

Total granted

$209k
$867k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+40%

Still filing today

71%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $515k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • DS
    DC SCORES
    3× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +152%
  • MS
    Mommas Safe Haven
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue -45%
  • PK
    PEACHES KITCHEN RESTAURANT AND CATERING
    2× · 2019–2020 · $27k

Funded once

  • WI
    WOMEN INVOLVED IN REENTRY EFFORTS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -21% · 32% of their budget
  • CL
    CHILDRENS LEGACY THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -31%
  • FA
    FIHANKRA AKOMA NTOASO
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

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
Dc Community Development Consortium Institute
Community Improvement
2
Open Dc
Community Improvement
3
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
4
Dc Alliance of Youth Advocates

Coalition with district of columbia to promote and propel youth into productive and healthy adulthood.

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5
Dmv Music Academy

The DMV Music Academy exists to expose, engage, and enrich young people through the transformative power of music.

Arts & Culture
6
Technology Playground

Technology Playground is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering youth in Washington, DC, by equipping them with the tools, knowledge, and experiences necessary to break the cycle of poverty. The organization addresses economic…

Youth Development
7
Latinas Leading Tomorrow

Connect and expose Latinas to opportunities that enrich their future through education mentoring and leadership development.

Human Services
8
The Young Women's Project

Ywp builds the leadership and power of young people so that they can transform dc institutions to expand rights and opportunities for dc youth. ywp programs engage youth on three levels - as peer educators, advocates, and employees - and…

Education
9
Collaborative Solutions for Communities

To be the leading solution-focused resource in building strong, sustainable families and communities through family support services, innovative training, community capacity building, economic development and social enterprise.

Crime & Legal
10
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
11
District of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic
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12
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Children and Families and the most unlike its peers is Guns Down Friday Gdf. 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 11 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%19%<5yr14%26%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr15%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%16%<5yr14%32%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr15%9%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 16% 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%
5/96
the rest of the field
12%
1,597/12,905

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

46 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. 46 of the 117 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DC SCORES — $62,000 · OtherDC SCORES+88 more — $1,074,060 · Other+88 moreTHE TRARON CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE TRARO…GUNS DOWN FRIDAY GDF — $25,000 · Human ServicesGUNS DOWN…NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $20,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL …MUTE THE VIOLENCE DC — $20,000 · Human ServicesMUTE THE …MIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $20,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S …THE STAND FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE STAND…GIVELAND FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesGIVELAND …VOLARE — $7,000 · Human ServicesMommas Safe Haven — $35,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS LEGACY THEATRE INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureYoung Playwrights Theater — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTheatre 202 — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPEN GOAL PROJECT — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsWOODLAND TIGERS YOUTH SPORTS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsMetropolitan Basketball League Inc — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsNEXT LEVEL TENNIS AND EDUCATION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWARD 7 BLUE BULLS YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWilliam O Lockridge Community Foundation — $25,000 · EducationScholarCHIPS Inc — $25,000 · EducationWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $10,000 · EducationMULTI-MEDIA TRAINING INSTITUTE — $10,000 · EducationTHE TRIGGER PROJECT — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTech Turn Up — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYAAY ME INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentDISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC — $12,000 · Housing & ShelterCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC — $8,530 · Housing & ShelterCoalition for Nonprofit Housing and — $7,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,136,060Human Services$137,000Arts & Culture$80,000Recreation & Sports$80,000Education$70,000Youth Development$70,000Housing & Shelter$27,530

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 budgetDC SCORES — $62,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMommas Safe Haven — $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE TRARON CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWOMEN INVOLVED IN REENTRY EFFORTS — $25,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCHILDRENS LEGACY THEATRE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGRAND CHAPTER OF THE DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY INC COMBINED — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam O Lockridge Community Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE TRIGGER PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetScholarCHIPS Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetOPEN GOAL PROJECT — $25,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTech Turn Up — $20,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND TIGERS YOUTH SPORTS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMUTE THE VIOLENCE DC — $20,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYAAY ME INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOffender Aid & Restoration Arlington Co OAR Arlington Alexandria Falls Church — $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Playwrights Theater — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWARD 7 BLUE BULLS YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $10,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMilitary Chaplains Association of the United States of America — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGlobal Impact — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMULTI-MEDIA TRAINING INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFort Davis Family CDC Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY INC — $9,883 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING — $8,800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC — $8,530 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOLARE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRESHFARM MARKETS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition for Nonprofit Housing and — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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…Philip L Graham Fund …United Way of the Nat…Humanities Council of…Clark Charitable Foun…Redskin Foundation In…Hattie M Strong Found…William S Abell Found…Everytown for Gun Saf…Clark-Winchcole Found…Commons Impact Founda…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC37.9× affinity24 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 · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Humanities Council of Washington DC · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation · Hattie M Strong Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Commons Impact 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 Center for Nonprofit Advancement 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 · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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 117 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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