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Greater Washington Community Foundation
The GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ignites the power of philanthropy to respond to critical community needs and build a thriving region where every person prospers.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1,417 grants below total $116,850,076 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $120,341,984 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,491,908 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k344 grants · $2.0M
- $10k–50k684 grants · $14M
- $50k–250k298 grants · $29M
- $250k+91 grants · $72M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN | $9,114,600 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE | $4,525,860 |
| ISLAMIC RELIEF USA | $3,800,000 |
| WASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND INC | $2,820,000 |
| REFLECTION PARK INC | $2,600,000 |
| LOCKHEED MARTIN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS | $1,754,250 |
| BETTER MARKETS INC | $1,600,000 |
| THE OASIS INITIATIVE FOUNDATION | $1,535,000 |
| GONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $1,515,000 |
| INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK | $1,500,000 |
| AMERICANS OF FAITH | $1,500,000 |
| CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER (CARECEN) | $1,412,900 |
| UNITED COMMUNITIES AGAINST POVERTY INC | $1,282,500 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND | $1,032,500 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES | $1,000,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $43.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
1484 repeat relationships — 868 still active in FY2025, 616 since wound down; 110 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BMBETTER MARKETS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +22% · 93% of their budget
- DADC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT5× · 2020–2025 · $9.6M · revenue ×32
- IRISLAMIC RELIEF USA6× · 2018–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +38%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOURCE FOR LEARNING INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +44%
- ALAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INCone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
- HCHOLY CROSS HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +24% · 51% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To eliminate the opportunity gap with high-quality early learning for children prenatal to age 5.
Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to teaching about the Constitution.
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy
The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.
Public policy research/education dedicated to principles of free enterprise & limited government.
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
We unite our global community to advance women's leadership today and tomorrow.
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Training and Research and the most unlike its peers is The New Museum At the Bradford Brinton. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1753 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. 1753 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds BETTER MARKETS INC ↗
- Who funds DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE SO INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds Reflection Park Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds POLICING EQUITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall 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 Greater Washington Community 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.
- Prince George's Financial Services Corporation — 61% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- Casaprince George's County Inc — 17% of income from government
- United Communities Against Poverty Inc — 17% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — 3% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.