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Congressional Sports for Charity
Raising funds to support local washington, d.c.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $1,005,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,112,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $107,000 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $598k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $150,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES | $150,000 |
| MAKE A WISH MID ATLANTIC | $50,000 |
| CAPITOL HILL WORKSHOP - FOR DC ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| UNITED STATES PARK POLICE HORSE MOUNTED PATROL | $45,000 |
| TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NATIONAL ARBORETUM | $25,000 |
| HORTON'S KIDS | $25,000 |
| FIGHT FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC | $25,000 |
| VETERANS FISHING ADVENTURE | $25,000 |
| ST COLETTA OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $25,000 |
| CHILD RESOURCE CONNET | $20,000 |
| HOUSING UP | $20,000 |
| THE POSSE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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, $528k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 55% of Congressional Sports for Charity’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 8% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +128%
- WNWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES7× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +156%
- WLWASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER6× · 2017–2023 · $637k · revenue +390% · 44% of their budget
Funded once
- UCUS CAPITOL POLICE MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $500k
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +21%
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.
To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
Kipp dc is the largest public charter school network in washington, d.c., serving more than 7,300 students from prek-12th grade. we are dedicated to supporting students who have historically lacked access to high-quality educational…
The mission of the nonprofit, nonpartisan close up foundation is to empower young people for a lifetime of active citizenship through civic education programs, professional development for educators, and classroom resources.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
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…
The district of columbia college access program's (dc cap's) primary purpose is to encourage and enable district of columbia students to attend and graduate college.
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Dc prep's mission is to bridge the educational divide in washington, dc by increasing the number of students from underserved communities with the academic preparation and personal character to succeed in competitive high schools and…
Imagination stage of washington, dc, inc. empowers all young people to discover their voice and identity through performing arts education and professional theatre.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everybody Wins Dc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Fishing Adventure Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 65 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND A HOME ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Fishing Adventure Inc ↗
- Who funds FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the National Arboretum ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds GALA INC GRUPO DE ARTISTAS LATINO AMERICANOS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Fishing School Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds THE THEATRE LAB INC ↗
- Who funds DC GRAYS BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community Bridges Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING DOGS ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HOUSE OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds BECKY LEE WOMENS SUPPORT FUND ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GUARD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Nora Roberts Foundation · Walter a Bloedorn Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · William S Abell Foundation Inc
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 Congressional Sports for Charity 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.
- Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families — 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.