· Public charity
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sheppard Pratt | $6,150 |
| Lab School | $5,150 |
| Phillips Schools | $5,150 |
| Foundation Schools | $5,150 |
| Ivymount School Inc | $5,150 |
| Treatment and Learning Center | $4,150 |
| The Pathways Schools | $2,650 |
| Chelsea School | $2,650 |
| Ridge School | $2,650 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 87% of your 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.
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.
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.
Baltimore Lab School is an innovative learning community fostering scholarship and creativity in students with different learning styles. In an environment of inquiry and hands-on exploration, Baltimore Lab School students learn to…
Independent school offering programs for infants, toddlers, preschool, and elementary school aged children with and without hearing loss.
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 Howard School educates students with language learning disabilities and differences. Instruction is personalized to complement individual learning styles, to address student needs, and to help each student understand his or her…
Founded to educate and inspire gifted and precocious learners who require special social, emotional, executive function and academic supports to realize their high potential, in the greater new york city area, for students grades 1 through…
A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.
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.
Educating the whole child, in mind, body and spirit, for a life of continuous learning and meaningful engagement with the world. Washington Waldorf School follows the Waldorf curriculum for students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth…
Edison high school empowers students with learning differences to experience academic success and personal growth, while preparing them for a productive future.
Crossroads School, Inc. prepares students with learning differences (K-12th grades) to integrate into a conventional school or college by facilitating their maximum academic and social potential in an emotionally safe and supportive…
Sandhills school is a 1st-12th grade college preparatory school for bright students with dyslexia and related learning differences. through individualized orton-gillingham instruction, our students gain the confidence, master the tools,…
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.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 SHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE LAB SCHOOL OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds The Ivymount School Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds TLC - The Treatment & Learning Centers ↗
- Who funds The Chelsea School ↗
- Who funds CROSSWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE 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.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 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.
- Adventist Healthcare Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc — 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.
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