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District of Columbia Assn for Special Education
The mission of the District of Columbia Association for Special Education (DCASE) is to provide non-public schools or programs and public charter schools with support in their efforts to provide appropriate services to District of Columbia students with disabilities.
$39k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants
3
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$5,150
Median grant
3
States reached
$109k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Sheppard Pratt$6,150
- Ivymount School Inc$5,150
- Foundation Schools$5,150
- Lab School$5,150
- Phillips Schools$5,150
- Treatment and Learning Center$4,150
- The Pathways Schools$2,650
- Ridge School$2,650
- Chelsea School$2,650
02The need
02
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 7%. 87% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
Chartwell School
Chartwell School empowers bright students with language-based learning differences, including dyslexia. We do this in grades K-12 by offering them the knowledge, creativity, and skills in self advocacy and perseverance needed to thrive in…
Education
2
The Vincent Smith School
The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.
Education
3
The River School
Independent school offering programs for infants, toddlers, preschool, and elementary school aged children with and without hearing loss.
Education
4
Baltimore Lab School Inc
Provide an exceptional, college-preparatory education for bright students in grades 1-12 with learning disabilities.
Education
5
The Howard School Inc
The Howard School educates students with language learning disabilities and differences.
Education
6
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
7
The Hill School of Wilmington Inc
To empower children who have learning differences with the skills needed to become confident, independent learners. It specifically addresses the needs of students with learning disabilities and/or attention deficit disorders.
Education
8
Patchworks Inc
Independent school for children
Education
9
Integrity Educational Services
Providing support services for schools that strive for excellent relevant and inclusive education
Education
10
Philips Academy Charter School Inc
Our mission is to inspire diverse learners in a rigorous and innovative environment that cultivates resilient leadership, intellectual curiosity, and thoughtful stewardship.
Education
11
The Keswell School
The keswell school is a specialized school for children with autism spectrum disorders.
Education
12
Stanbridge Academy
Private school for students with mild to moderate learning differences
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation Schools and the most unlike its peers is Adventist Healthcare Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$20,750Other$11,950Health$6,150
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.
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 Gwendolyn CafritzDC15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation District of Columbia Assn for Special Education 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Chelsea School.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 521072280 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Chelsea School, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to District of Columbia Assn for Special Education?
Find your warmest path to District of Columbia Assn for Special Education through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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