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Downtown Jaycees Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$66kYouth Development$47kHealth$44kFood & Nutrition$28kArts & Culture$18kHousing & Shelter$16kHuman Services$14kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,334
Median grant
5
States reached
$335k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD AND FRIENDS$5,305
DONORS CHOOSE$3,171
WANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION$3,000
ARLINGTON SOCCER ASSOCIATION$2,524
DC JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$2,500
THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE FOUNDATION INC$2,170
THE TREVOR PROJECT$2,068
CITY BLOSSOMS$2,066
SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE$1,750
MATTIE MIRACLE CANCER FOUNDATION$1,334
CORE FOUNDATION$1,256
LATINA READING TOMORROW$1,000
METRO DC COMMUNITY CENTER INC$1,000
SCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA$500
DOORWAYS$500
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $3k → 14%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $3k → 14%LATINA READING TOMORROW: $1k → 7%SASHA BRUCE YOUTH WORK INC: $2k → 14%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $2k → 14%THE FINISHING SCHOOL: $2k → 14%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $2k → 14%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $2k → 14%THE FINISHING SCHOOL: $2k → 14%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $1k → 14%ASPIRE AFTER SCHOOL LEARNING: $457 → 7%METRO DC COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 14%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $2k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $2k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $2k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$220k · 27 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
20

Total granted

$220k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+1%

Still filing today

85%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FF
    FOOD & FRIENDS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +139%
  • BB
    BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +249%
  • WA
    WANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • CV
    CAMP VIRGINIA JAYCEE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • GU
    GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +21%
  • HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +34%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
2
Global Kids Inc

Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.

Youth Development
3
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
4
Learn Dc Public Charter School

Provide students with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree.

Education
5
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
6
Wonders Early Learning Extended Day

To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.

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7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
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
9
Two Rivers Public Charter School Inc

Two rivers mission: to nurture a diverse group of students to become lifelong, active participants in their own education, develop a sense of self and community, and become responsible and compassionate members of society.

Education
10
Dc Action for Children Today Dc Act

We're making the District of Columbia a place where all kids grow up safe, resilient, powerful and heard. DC Action uses research, data, and a racial equity lens to break down barriers that stand in the way of all kids reaching their full…

Human Services
11
Dc Preparatory Academy

Dc prep's mission is to bridge the educational divide in washington, dc by increasing the number of students from underserved communities with the academic preparation and personal character to succeed in competitive high schools and…

Education
12
Live It Learn It

LILI partners with public schools and cultural institutions to create and deliver experiential learning opportunities for students in order to increase their self-efficacy, build on their intrinsic motivation, and support their scholarly…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Greater Washington and the most unlike its peers is Latinas Leading Tomorrow. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr17%35%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr17%39%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
12%
1,955/16,648

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
19/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $19,207 · OtherBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INCJULIET GRACE SMITH FOUNDATION INC — $12,800 · OtherJULIET GRACE SMITH FOUNDATION INCEASTER SEALS — $12,500 · OtherEASTER SEALSARLINGTON SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $7,524 · OtherARLINGTON SOCCER ASSOCIATIONJubilee Jumpstart — $7,000 · OtherJubilee JumpstartCITY BLOSSOMS INC — $12,066 · OtherCITY BLOSSOMS INCJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $9,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTONCAPITOL CITY ROBOTICS INC — $4,500 · Other+25 more — $37,927 · Other+25 moreFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $24,905 · HealthFOOD & FRIENDS …THE MATTIE MIRACLE CANCER FOUNDATION — $6,475 · HealthTHE MATTIE MIRA…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $3,003 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UN…DONORSCHOOSEORG — $10,465 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEOR…M STREET CENTER — $7,500 · EducationM STREET CENTE…A WIDER CIRCLE INC — $6,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE…Youth Leadership Foundation Inc — $5,000 · EducationYouth Leadersh…GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · EducationGALLAUDET UNIV…TEAM DC INC — $2,029 · EducationTEAM DC INCSMYAL Inc — $12,000 · Human ServicesSMYAL IncARLINGTON THRIVE — $7,000 · Human ServicesARLINGTON T…The Fishing School Inc — $3,500 · Human ServicesThe Fishing…SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesSASHA BRUCE…METRO DC COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesLatinas Leading Tomorrow — $1,000 · Human Services+1 more — $457 · Human ServicesTHE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE FOUNDATION INC — $8,620 · Arts & CultureKid Pan Alley — $3,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ARLINGTON — $1,000 · Arts & CultureFederal City Performing Arts Association — $900 · Arts & CultureWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · Housing & ShelterTREVOR PROJECT INC — $9,818 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $2,600 · Civil Rights
Other$122,524Health$34,383Education$33,994Human Services$26,957Arts & Culture$14,020Housing & Shelter$13,000Civil Rights$12,418

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $24,905 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $19,207 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCITY BLOSSOMS INC — $12,066 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSMYAL Inc — $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $10,465 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $9,818 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE FOUNDATION INC — $8,620 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetARLINGTON SOCCER ASSOCIATION — $7,524 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetM STREET CENTER — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJubilee Jumpstart — $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetARLINGTON THRIVE — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MATTIE MIRACLE CANCER FOUNDATION — $6,475 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Leadership Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKid Pan Alley — $3,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Fishing School Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORE FOUNDATION INC — $3,006 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $3,003 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatinas Leading Tomorrow — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ARLINGTON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFederal City Performing Arts Association — $900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE READING CONNECTION INC — $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPathForward Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Pike Partnership Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING — $457 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Dimick Foundation Joh…Arlington Community F…Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…Washington Forrest Fo…Philip L Graham Fund …Richard E & Nancy P M…John Edward Fowler Me…Venable Foundation IncDominion Energy Chari…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC31.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Arlington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Washington Forrest Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 Downtown Jaycees Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 56 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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