How much does Community First - America's Charities give?

Community First - America's Charities reported 22 itemized grants totaling $894,863, out of $1,178,186 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Community First - America's Charities fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (15%).

Who are Community First - America's Charities's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc ($1.4M), House of Ruth ($903k), A Wider Circle Inc ($877k).

Does Community First - America's Charities fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community First - America's Charities?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include America's Charities, The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc, United Way of the National Capital Area.

Where is Community First - America's Charities based?

Community First - America's Charities is based in VA.

Community First - America's Charities

Community First - America's Charities at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Community First - America's Charities

To support, and be organized and operate to promote and support the activities and purposes of other 501(c)(3)organizations that assist children, families, adults & communities by providing services that further their exempt purposes.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$135k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.3MArts & Culture$1.4MHealth$1.4MEducation$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.1MFood & Nutrition$591kYouth Development$401kAnimals$326kOther$0

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 22 grants below total $894,863, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,178,186 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $283,323 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $41k
$10k–50k7 grants · $169k
$50k–250k9 grants · $685k

$30,086

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WETA (GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TE	$134,688
CATHOLIC CHARITIES - DIOCESE OF AR	$95,030
A WIDER CIRCLE	$88,062
HOUSE OF RUTH	$83,677
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN	$65,249
FOOD FOR OTHERS INC	$58,610
CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH	$54,769
ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF ARLINGTON	$54,181
THE SALVATION ARMY - NATIONAL CAPITAL A	$50,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NVA	$34,147
SHEPHERD'S TABLE THE	$30,086
BSA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA	$29,921
MAKE-A-WISH FND MID-ATLANTIC	$20,662
LORTON COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER	$20,500
CAPITAL CARING	$17,073

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.2M · 30 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.2M

$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+58%

Still filing today

90%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCivil RightsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

GW
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +56%
HO
HOUSE OF RUTH
8× · 2017–2024 · $903k · revenue +95%
CI
CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $573k · revenue +242%

Funded once

RM
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER WASHONGTON DC INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +58%
LH
LYDIA'S HOUSE IN SOUTHEASTgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +116%
TC
THE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +36%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Washington Voa Living Center

Low-income housing.

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Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health

Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

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…

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Community of Hope

Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.

Community Improvement

Act for Alexandria

Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.

Community Improvement

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

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Anne Arundel County Casa Inc

Advocate for and support abused and neglected children to ensure their right to safe, stable and permanent homes.

Civil Rights

Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health

Thrive Dc

Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Food & Nutrition

Woodley House Inc

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.

Health

District of Columbia Hospital Association

To provide leadership in improving the health care system in the district of columbia; advocate for the interests of member hospitals as they support the interests of the community; and encourage health services research and education.

—

Pathways to Housing Dc

Pathways to housing dc prevents and ends homelessness for persons living with serious psychiatric disabilities and other complex health challenges.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/31

Grantees still filing

25/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,009,412Arts & Culture$1,405,389Education$1,366,577Human Services$1,334,894Housing & Shelter$1,055,143Health$721,762Animals$325,925

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

America's CharitiesVA32.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: America's Charities · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Act for Alexandria · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community First - America's Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community First - America's Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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