Virginia · Public charity
Congressional Sports for Charity
Raising funds to support local washington, d.c. Area charities by producing bipartisan sporting events.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $893k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $165,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Congressional Sports for Charity funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $893k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $995k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $1.0M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $963k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $575k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $187k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $741k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $660k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate | $1,175,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Washington Nationals Philanthropies | $915,000 | 8 | 11% |
| Washington Literacy Center | $637,000 | 6 | 44% |
| US Capitol Police Memorial Fund | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy | $375,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Capitol Hill Arts Workshop | $230,000 | 7 | 3% |
| The First Tee of Greater Washington DC Langston Golf Course | $135,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc | $125,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hope and a Home | $95,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Trust for the National Mall | $90,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 71 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Congressional Sports for Charity supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 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 · 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
How this is measured
About Congressional Sports for Charity
- How much does Congressional Sports for Charity give?
- Congressional Sports for Charity reported 37 itemized grants totaling $892,600, out of $1,022,088 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Congressional Sports for Charity fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (28%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Education (15%).
- Who are Congressional Sports for Charity's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate ($1.2M), Washington Nationals Philanthropies ($915k), Washington Literacy Center ($637k).
- Does Congressional Sports for Charity fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Congressional Sports for Charity?
- 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 Congressional Sports for Charity based?
- Congressional Sports for Charity is based in VA.
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