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DC Scores

DC Scores goes where kids in need are and creates neighborhood teams that give kids the confidence and skills to succeed on the playing field, in the classroom, and in life.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$145kPhilanthropy$55kReligion$30kCrime & Legal$23kFood & Nutrition$10kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$7k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Serve Your City (DC United Foundation)$20,000
Intentionalist SPC (DC United Foundation)$15,000
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation (DC United Foundation)$10,000
So Others Might Eat (DC United Foundation)$10,000
Homeless Children's Playtime Project (DC United Foundation)$10,000
Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso (DC United Foundation)$10,000
Hope Foundation (DC United Foundation$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Homeless Children's Playtime Project (DC United Foundation): $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 5 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$203k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
0%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • RT
    ROBERT TRENT JONES GOLF CLUB INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $55k · revenue +39%
  • US
    UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • SY
    SERVE YOUR CITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • AA
    ADIDAS AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • LT
    LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • PF
    PEACE FOR DC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

1
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
2
Future Soccer Inc

Our vision: a future where all youth have access to a quality coach and mentor, encouraging them to chase their dreams

Recreation & Sports
3
Uncommon Sports Group

To maximize the utilization of sport as a positive social agent for change on both a domestic and international level by developing christ-centered leaders of the college & pro sports industries.

Youth Development
4
Chicago City Soccer Club

Chicago city soccer club is committed to providing opportunities for young people in the city of chicago, illinois to learn and play soccer in a healthy and positive environment, and to guiding chicago youth soccer players in the…

Recreation & Sports
5
Washington Commanders Foundation

The Washington Commanders Foundation is committed to building a more vibrant and enriched DMV community by investing in education, honoring public service, and broadening access to youth football programs. By harnessing the transformative…

Philanthropy
6
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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7
Youth Soccer Club of Montgomery County Inc Dba Htx Soccer Inc

Providing youth soccer opportunities for all levels in the greater Houston community.

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8
San Francisco Junior Glens Soccer Association

To provide athletic opportunities to the youth of san francisco bay area by providing low cost opportunities to learn, play and participate in soccer by obtaining training in clinics, play and participate in leagues and tournaments.

Recreation & Sports
9
Dc Sports & Recreation Association Inc

Dc sports and recreation association connects dc residents through soccer. each year we organize hundreds of leagues, tournaments and events, all with the purpose of keeping people active, building community and serving the city where we…

Recreation & Sports
10
Fair Chance

Strengthen sustainability of community based non-profits to benefit those experiencing poverty.

Human Services
11
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
12
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Soccer Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBERT TRENT JONES GOLF CLUB INC: $55,046 · OtherROBERT TRENT JONES GOLF CLUB INCINTENTIONALIST SPC: $30,000 · OtherINTENTIONALIST SPCADIDAS AMERICA INC: $10,000 · OtherADIDAS AMERICA INCSOME INC: $10,000 · OtherSOME INCFihankra Akoma Ntoaso: $10,000 · OtherFihankra Akoma NtoasoAirbase: $10,000 · OtherAirbaseNational Business (DC United Foundation): $7,459 · OtherNational Business (DC United Foundation)UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES SOCCER FO…LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING THE PLAYING FI…SERVE YOUR CITY: $45,000 · PhilanthropySERVE YOUR CITYMONUMENTAL SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMONUMENTAL SPORTS & E…HOPE FOUNDATION REENTRY NETWORK INC: $22,500 · Crime & LegalHOPE FOUNDAT…PEACE FOR DC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalPEACE FOR DCHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$132,505Recreation & Sports$60,000Philanthropy$55,000Crime & Legal$32,500Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBERT TRENT JONES GOLF CLUB INC: $55,046 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSERVE YOUR CITY: $45,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetHOPE FOUNDATION REENTRY NETWORK INC: $22,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMONUMENTAL SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFihankra Akoma Ntoaso: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPEACE FOR DC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

Greater Washington Co…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 DC Scores funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from DC Scores. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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