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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $894,863 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,178,186 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $283,323 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 $10k6 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $685k
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 8 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 FY2024, 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
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +56%
- HOHOUSE OF RUTH8× · 2017–2024 · $903k · revenue +95%
- CICHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $573k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER WASHONGTON DC INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +58%
- LHLYDIA'S HOUSE IN SOUTHEASTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +112%
- TCTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +36%
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.
Low-income housing.
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.
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…
Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.
Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.
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…
Advocate for and support abused and neglected children to ensure their right to safe, stable and permanent homes.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
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.
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 prevents and ends homelessness for persons living with serious psychiatric disabilities and other complex health challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 33 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 GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare League of Arlington ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Shepherds Table Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN VA ↗
- Who funds Capital Hospice ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Lorton Community Action Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Housing & Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc ↗
- Who funds AHC INC ↗
- Who funds MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER WASHONGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFAX COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together DC Alexandria ↗
- Who funds GENERATION HOPE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CARE FOR WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds LYDIA'S HOUSE IN SOUTHEAST ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS 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.
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
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 Community First - America's Charities 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc — 73% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 0% 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.
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