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Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee

$609k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$721kArts & Culture$353kYouth Development$275kEducation$154kHousing & Shelter$152kEmployment$129kFood & Nutrition$114kRecreation & Sports$87kPhilanthropy$77kOther$1.0M
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $582k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$23k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN$31,500
DC COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLE$31,500
WE ARE FAMILY SENIOR OUTREACH NETWO$31,500
CRITICAL EXPOSURE$25,000
ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION$17,500
AYUDA$17,500
WASHINGTON LAWYERS COMMITTEE$17,500
CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES$16,500
IONA SENIOR SERVICES$16,500
ROB'S BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATI$16,500
DC FORENSIC NURSE EXAMINERS$16,500
CHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY$16,500
METRO STAGE$16,500
SUITED FOR CHANGE$16,500
DC KINCARE ALLIANCE$16,500
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 (FY20–25, $706k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPERATION WARM INC: $8k → 10%WE ARE FAMILY SENIOR OUTREACH NETWO: $32k → 14%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $8k → 9%EQUIPMENT CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $17k → 6%OPERATION WARM INC: $8k → 10%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $8k → 9%EQUIPMENT CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 6%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $17k → 9%EQUIPMENT CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 6%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $15k → 9%EQUIPMENT CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 6%ROB'S BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATI: $17k → 6%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $8k → 9%ROB'S BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATI: $15k → 6%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $8k → 9%ROB'S BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATI: $8k → 6%LIBERTY'S PROMISE: $8k → 9%ROB'S BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATI: $8k → 6%ALIVE-INC: $17k → 9%ROB'S BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATI: $8k → 6%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $15k → 9%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $8k → 9%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENT: $15k → 11%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $32k → 14%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENT: $8k → 11%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENT: $8k → 11%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $15k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $8k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $8k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $10k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $8k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $8k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $8k → 14%COMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 14%GEARIN' UP BICYCLES: $8k → 14%GEARIN' UP BICYCLES: $8k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $15k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $8k → 14%DC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $17k → 14%DC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%AYUDA: $18k → 14%GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 14%YWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $15k → 14%YWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $9k → 14%YWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $9k → 14%YWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $8k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $17k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $15k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 87 repeat orgs$430k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.

87 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
37

Total granted

$2.7M
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-14%

Still filing today

80%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • IS
    Iona Senior Services
    6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +25%
  • CW
    CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +28%
  • DK
    DC KINCARE ALLIANCE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $54k · revenue +271%

Funded once

  • GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue ×35
  • NL
    NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDU FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY & YO
    one grant, 2021 · $8k

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
Cityworks Dc

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…

Education
2
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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3
District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture
4
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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5
Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education
6
Global Kids Inc

Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.

Youth Development
7
Act for Alexandria

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

Community Improvement
8
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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9
Urban Ed Inc

To provide technology-driven education, information and skills development for sustained futures to children, youth, and adults in the district of columbia region.

Employment
10
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
11
Dc Policy Center

The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…

Public Benefit
12
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

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.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dc Kincare Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Equipment Connections for Children 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr15%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr18%40%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr15%5%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/99
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,902

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

97 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. 97 of the 146 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/97
Grantees still filing
55/97
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC — $71,000 · OtherACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INCMY SISTER'S PLACE INC — $54,000 · OtherDC FORENSIC NURSE EXAMINERS — $46,500 · OtherDC SCORES — $45,000 · OtherCommon Good City Farm — $45,000 · OtherFriends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc — $46,500 · OtherWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $55,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Other+78 more — $909,000 · Other+78 moreIona Senior Services — $61,500 · Human ServicesIona Senior ServicesFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN — $61,500 · Human ServicesFOR LOVE OF CHILDRENDC KINCARE ALLIANCE — $54,000 · Human ServicesDC KINCARE ALLIANCELIBERTY'S PROMISE — $54,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY'S PROMISEROBS BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $54,000 · Human ServicesROBS BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY …EQUIPMENT CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN INC — $46,500 · Human ServicesEQUIPMENT CONNECTIONS FOR …GREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $45,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC DIAPER BANKYWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA — $41,000 · Human ServicesYWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAAYUDA INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INCTogether We Bake — $37,500 · Human ServicesThe Fishing School Inc — $32,500 · Human ServicesWE ARE FAMILY SENIOR OUTREACH NETWORK INC — $31,500 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC — $30,000 · Human ServicesGREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC — $25,000 · Human Services+5 more — $76,500 · Human Services+5 moreYoung Playwrights Theater — $45,000 · Arts & CultureYoung Playwr…HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ — $45,000 · Arts & CultureHERBIE HANCO…STEPAFRIKA USA INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPAFRIKA U…Alexandria Seaport Foundation — $45,000 · Arts & CultureAlexandria S…DANCE PLACE — $37,500 · Arts & CultureDANCE PLACEARTSTREAM INC — $37,500 · Arts & CultureARTSTREAM IN…ARTS FOR THE AGING INC — $37,500 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR THE…DUMBARTON ARTS AND EDUCATION INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureDUMBARTON AR…SHOUTMOUSEPRESSINC — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $15,500 · Arts & CultureCritical Exposure Inc — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentCritical E…Best Kids Inc — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBest Kids …KEEN GREATER DC LLC — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentKEEN GREAT…PROJECT CREATE — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT CR…COMMUNITY YOUTH ADVANCE INCORPORATED — $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY …HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS G…+3 more — $17,500 · Youth Development+3 moreCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC — $45,000 · EducationCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING — $30,000 · EducationDC CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP INC — $22,500 · EducationGRAFTON SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $12,500 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · EducationCOMPUTER CORE INC — $7,500 · EducationWASHINGTON URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC — $7,500 · EducationCOLLEGE TRIBE — $7,500 · EducationSPARK THE JOURNEY — $7,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $5,250 · Education+2 more — $1,250 · EducationCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $61,500 · Housing & ShelterDISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC — $37,500 · Housing & ShelterNEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES — $22,500 · Housing & ShelterBYTE BACK — $45,000 · EmploymentJUBILEE JOBS INC — $45,000 · EmploymentSUITED FOR CHANGE — $39,000 · Employment
Other$1,317,000Human Services$720,500Arts & Culture$353,000Youth Development$275,000Education$154,000Housing & Shelter$151,500Employment$129,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC — $71,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetIona Senior Services — $61,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN — $61,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $61,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCritical Exposure Inc — $55,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDC KINCARE ALLIANCE — $54,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetMY SISTER'S PLACE INC — $54,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLIBERTY'S PROMISE — $54,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetROBS BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $54,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetEQUIPMENT CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN INC — $46,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFriends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc — $46,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetYoung Playwrights Theater — $45,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBYTE BACK — $45,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBest Kids Inc — $45,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetDC SCORES — $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ — $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKEEN GREATER DC LLC — $45,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPAFRIKA USA INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT CREATE — $45,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCommon Good City Farm — $45,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJUBILEE JOBS INC — $45,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAlexandria Seaport Foundation — $45,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetYWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA — $41,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetAYUDA INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSUITED FOR CHANGE — $39,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH ADVANCE INCORPORATED — $37,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDANCE PLACE — $37,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC — $37,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetARTSTREAM INC — $37,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetDANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON — $37,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTogether We Bake — $37,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFriends of the National Arboretum — $37,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetARTS FOR THE AGING INC — $37,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING INC — $37,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetThe Fishing School Inc — $32,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING — $30,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FORKLIFT — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN — $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIATION DC — $30,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetHOPE AND A HOME — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds ACCOKEEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Iona Senior Services ↗
  • Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds Critical Exposure Inc ↗
  • Who funds DC KINCARE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MY SISTER'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY'S PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds ROBS BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUIPMENT CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc ↗
  • Who funds Young Playwrights Theater ↗
  • Who funds BYTE BACK ↗
  • Who funds Best Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds DC SCORES ↗
  • Who funds HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ ↗
  • Who funds KEEN GREATER DC LLC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPAFRIKA USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CREATE ↗
  • Who funds Common Good City Farm ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE JOBS INC ↗
  • Who funds Alexandria Seaport Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
  • Who funds AYUDA INC ↗
  • Who funds SUITED FOR CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH ADVANCE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds DISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTSTREAM INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Together We Bake ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the National Arboretum ↗
  • Who funds ARTS FOR THE AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP & LEARNING 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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Dimick Foundation Joh…Greater Washington Co…Clark-Winchcole Found…Philip L Graham Fund …John Edward Fowler Me…United Way of the Nat…Nora Roberts Foundati…William S Abell Found…Hattie M Strong Found…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Max & Victoria Dreyfu…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC109.3× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Nora Roberts Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Hattie M Strong Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus 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 Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee 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 · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Accokeek Foundation Inc — 44% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Action Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Arts for the Aging Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 146 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines