· Public charity
Downtown Business Improvement District Corporation
To enhance the economic vitality of the members of the downtown bid area by providing additional safety and maintenance services, and other services.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 121 grants below total $1,008,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,105,511 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $97,511 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k87 grants · $583k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUBA LIBRE DC LLC | $15,000 |
| MEZZE AND MORE LLC DBA ZAYTINYA | $15,000 |
| WARNER THEATRE | $15,000 |
| FARMERS AND DISTILLERS DC LLC | $15,000 |
| PARK PLACE INC | $15,000 |
| JOE'S SEAFOOD PRIME | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL THEATRE | $15,000 |
| TYM MERGER COMPANY LLC DBA JALEO | $15,000 |
| RPM DC LLC CO LETTUCE ENTERTAIN YOU ENTERPRISES | $15,000 |
| SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| 1201 K STREET F&B TENANT LLC DBA AMERICAN SON WILD DAYS KINTSUGI & ALLEG | $15,000 |
| COMPASS COFFEE | $15,000 |
| FORD'S THEATRE | $15,000 |
| OYAMEL DC LLC | $15,000 |
| WHITE HOUSE GIFT CENTER WHGC LLC | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.
It is the mission of the Theater Alliance of Washington DC to develop, produce, and present socially conscious, thought-provoking work that fully engages the community in active dialogue.
The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Provide a low cost theatre options for the community of washington
To take audiences to the vital heart of the theatre experience. Extraordinary artists in an intimate setting exploring the human condition. To foster connections and positive change in our community through vigorous, inclusive, empowering…
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…
Organization mission: act is a contemporary theatre where artistic ambition and civic engagement unite. organization vision: act envisions a world where the power of theatre expands our collective understanding of community and our own…
Washington DCs premier contemporary physical theater seeks to redefine theatre by devising a unique and innoivative blend of stage movement, dance, text, and music while investing in artists growth, and creating unforgettable visceral…
The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatrewashington 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.
11 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. 11 of the 119 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.
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.
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: City First Enterprises Inc · Latino Economic Development Corporation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Downtown Business Improvement District Corporation 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.
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.