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Fradian Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$505k
Granted FY2020
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Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$505k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Community Improvement$855kYouth Development$225kHousing & Shelter$125kEducation$110kCrime & Legal$105kCivil Rights$75kEmployment$60kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$504,963
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUND$504,963
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Liberty's Promise: $40k → 9%Pathways to Housing DC: $80k → 14%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 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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Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
2
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
3
Casa for Children of the District of Columbia

Court appointed special advocates of DC (CASA DC) promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy so that every abused and neglected child in the DC foster care or juvenile justice system can be safe, establish permanence and have the…

Human Services
4
Public Justice Center Inc

The public justice center (pjc) pursues systemic change to build a just society. (see schedule o)the pjc uses legal advocacy tools to pursue social justice, economic and race equity, and fundamental human rights for people who are…

Crime & Legal
5
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
6
Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter School

The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…

Education
7
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
8
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
9
Career Path Dc

Creating employability pathways for disadvantaged individuals with low to moderate skill sets

Employment
10
Ingenuity Prep

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

Education
11
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle

The urban league of metropolitan seattle (ulms) empowers african americans, as well as other diverse underserved communities, to thrive by securing educational and economic opportunities.

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Collaborative Solutions for Communities

To be the leading solution-focused resource in building strong, sustainable families and communities through family support services, innovative training, community capacity building, economic development and social enterprise.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open City Advocates and the most unlike its peers is Life Pieces to Masterpieces. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 24 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.

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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
16/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUND — $504,963 · OtherGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDIndividual grant recipient — $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCASA INC — $75,000 · OtherCASA INCLiteracy Volunteers and Advocates — $70,000 · OtherLiteracy Volunteers and AdvocatesAcademy of Hope — $70,000 · OtherAcademy of HopeDiverse City Fund — $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherOPEN CITY ADVOCATES — $50,000 · OtherNEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN — $45,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC — $45,000 · Other+5 more — $155,000 · Other+5 morePATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC — $80,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY'S PROMISE — $40,000 · Human ServicesLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCritical Exposure Inc — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyECDC ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT GROUP — $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT — $75,000 · EducationJUBILEE JOBS INC — $60,000 · EmploymentLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES — $60,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,204,963Human Services$120,000Youth Development$90,000Philanthropy$80,000Education$75,000Employment$60,000Arts & Culture$60,000

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 budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT — $75,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCASA INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers and Advocates — $70,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetJUBILEE JOBS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES — $60,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN CITY ADVOCATES — $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN — $45,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY'S PROMISE — $40,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTEACHING FOR CHANGE — $40,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetLATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCritical Exposure Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAdvocates for Justice and Education — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% 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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…United Way of the Nat…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Philip L Graham Fund …John Edward Fowler Me…Weissberg FoundationCorina Higginson Trus…Hattie M Strong Found…Richard E & Nancy P M…William S Abell Found…Clark-Winchcole Found…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC32.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Weissberg Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · Hattie M Strong Foundation · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole 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 Fradian 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 24 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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