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Gifts for the Homeless
GFTH serves the Washington DC-area homeless population by providing donated used clothing, blankets, toiletries, and related items to area homeless support organizations and by using monetary donations to purchase new clothing and blankets that the organization distributes to homeless support organizations that, in turn, distribute them…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $805,381.
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.
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.
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
Dcc is for the purpose of strengthening the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and communities in the greater washington, dc area. dcc is a full-time, bilingual social service organization that provides comprehensive…
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
Christ House provides 24-hour comprehensive and compassionate care for people experiencing homelessness with acute medical needs in the District of Columbia and offers assistance in addressing critical issues to help break the cycle of…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
Low-income housing.
The mission of affordable housing opportunities, inc. (aho) is to develop, own and manage low income housing for the very poorest of the washington, dc metropolitan area.
Dignity Housing's mission is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty that confronts low-income families and individuals in the City of Philadelphia.
To reduce homelessness, increase the support from the community and promote self-sufficiency for families and individuals struggling with housing issues in Fairfax County, Virginia.
The haven provides a safe and welcoming space for the homeless and very poor in charlottesville, virginia area by supprting individuals and families as they pursue stability through connections to resources and creative housing…
Woodley house enables district of columbia residents with mental health disorders to live full and healthy lives with dignity by providing supportive housing and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is N Street Village Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic School Incorporated. 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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · William S Abell Foundation Inc · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Arlington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Capital Area Food Bank Inc · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · 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.