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· Public charity
DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
To enhance the economic vitality of the members of the downtown bid.
$1.1M
Granted FY2021
121
Grants
2
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 121 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k87 grants · $583k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $425k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
- TYM MERGER COMPANY LLC DBA JALEO$15,000
- OYAMEL DC LLC$15,000
- PARK PLACE INC$15,000
- RPM DC LLC CO LETTUCE ENTERTAIN YOU ENTERPRISES$15,000
- FARMERS AND DISTILLERS DC LLC$15,000
- 1201 K STREET F&B TENANT LLC DBA AMERICAN SON WILD DAYS KINTSUGI & ALLEG$15,000
- WARNER THEATRE$15,000
- MEZZE AND MORE LLC DBA ZAYTINYA$15,000
- FORD'S THEATRE$15,000
- SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY$15,000
- JOE'S SEAFOOD PRIME$15,000
- WHITE HOUSE GIFT CENTER WHGC LLC$15,000
- COMPASS COFFEE$15,000
- CUBA LIBRE DC LLC$15,000
- NATIONAL THEATRE$15,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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United States Institute for Theatre
To actively connect performing arts design and technology communities to ensure a vibrant dialog among practitioners, educators, and students.
Arts & Culture
2
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world.
Arts & Culture
3
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
4
Capitol Theatre Committee
Enrich the community's vitality and quality-of-life through performing arts.
Arts & Culture
5
Association for the Colonial Theatre
To showcase the transformative power of the arts to enrich lives and connect people
Arts & Culture
6
Washington Drama Society Inc
Arena stage is a center for the production,presentation,development & study of the american theater.
Arts & Culture
7
The Stanford Theatre Foundation
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8
Contemporary American Theater Festival
Theater and other contemporary arts
Arts & Culture
9
Bow Street Theatre Trust
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10
Writers Theatre Inc
To present world-class productions of classic, adapted, and original plays, and to provide a wide array of education and enrichment programming for area students and theatre-goers.
Arts & Culture
11
The Studio Theatre Inc
Produces and presents professional theatre productions.
Arts & Culture
12
The City Theatre Company Inc
To provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatre Downtown Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$911,000Arts & Culture$80,000Community Improvement$10,000Religion$7,000
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.
City First Enterprises IncDC74.8× affinity43 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: City First Enterprises Inc · Latino Economic Development Corporation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family · Nora Roberts Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving 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 organisation DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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: NATIONAL THEATRE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 521014217 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 NATIONAL THEATRE, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Downtown Business Improvement District?
Find your warmest path to Downtown Business Improvement District 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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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
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