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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.

$120M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1,417
Grants FY2025still arriving
47
States reached
$9.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$146MPhilanthropy$69MArts & Culture$58MHuman Services$52MHealth$45MCivil Rights$38MCommunity Improvement$37MFood & Nutrition$32MOther$0
02FY2025 · 1417 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1,417 grants below total $116,850,076, the rows itemized in this filing. The $120,341,984 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,491,908 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k344 grants · $2.0M
  • $10k–50k684 grants · $14M
  • $50k–250k298 grants · $29M
  • $250k+91 grants · $72M
$20,000
Median grant
47
States reached
$518M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AMERICANS OF FAITH$1,500,000
INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK$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
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HEALTHCARE SERVICES FOUNDATION$1,000,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REZ Refuge Ministries Inc: $316k → 28%Mothers Outreach Network: $1.1M → 14%Emergency Assistance Foundation: $235k → 14%BlinkNow Fdn: $900k → 4%REZ Refuge Ministries Inc: $216k → 28%REZ Refuge Ministries Inc: $205k → 28%American Red Cross: $371k → 6%Family Services Agency Inc: $321k → 8%FII - National: $1.0M → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $280k → 6%American Red Cross: $233k → 6%The Bon Secours of Maryland Foundation: $1.7M → 19%UNITED COMMUNITIES AGAINST POVERTY INC: $1.3M → 11%United Communities Against Poverty Inc: $383k → 11%Glasswing International USA: $224k → 17%National Center for Children and Families: $669k → 8%Miriam's Kitchen: $225k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $192k → 14%Jewish Social Service Agency: $957k → 8%Montgomery Cty Coal for the Homeless Inc: $191k → 8%Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc: $201k → 14%For Love of Children: $184k → 14%Mamatoto Village Inc: $436k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $261k → 14%GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $4.5M → 14%CentroNia: $816k → 14%DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $9.1M → 14%Ayuda Inc: $474k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $320k → 14%Fair Chance: $195k → 14%Tides Center dba Rights4Girls: $223k → 14%Washington Area Women's Foundation: $215k → 14%Community Family Life Svcs Inc: $410k → 14%DC Action for Children: $364k → 14%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washingto: $302k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WA: $283k → 14%UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION - ANACOSTIA: $226k → 14%SPEAKOUT: $200k → 14%Institute for Public Health Innovation: $315k → 14%Institute for Public Health Innovation: $255k → 14%Institute for Public Health Innovation: $255k → 14%DC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $200k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $519k → 14%DC AFFORDABLE LAW FIRM: $414k → 14%DC Affordable Law Firm: $400k → 14%Fair Chance: $186k → 14%Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collab: $253k → 14%Covenant House: $206k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$589M · 1483 repeat orgs$43M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

1483 repeat relationships: 866 still active in FY2025, 617 since wound down; 111 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1483
331

Total granted

$589M
$28M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+7%

Still filing today

85%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BM
    BETTER MARKETS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +33% · 93% of their budget
  • DA
    DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT
    5× · 2020–2025 · $9.6M · revenue ×32
  • IR
    ISLAMIC RELIEF USA
    6× · 2018–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SOURCE FOR LEARNING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +44%
  • HC
    HOLY CROSS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +24% · 51% of their budget
  • FII - NATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -26%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Educare Dc

To eliminate the opportunity gap with high-quality early learning for children prenatal to age 5.

Human Services
2
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture
3
University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
4
National Constitution Center

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to teaching about the Constitution.

Arts & Culture
5
Boston Architectural College

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…

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6
Center for Global Development
Human Services
7
Foreign Policy Research Institute

Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy

International
8
The Common Application Inc

The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Education
9
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Public policy research/education dedicated to principles of free enterprise & limited government.

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10
United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

—
11
International Women's Forum Inc

We unite our global community to advance women's leadership today and tomorrow.

Education
12
University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Training and Research; 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.
04the grantee network

1746 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1746 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

114
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
421
Early backer (in before they grew)
1685/1746
Grantees still filing
1210/1746
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $10,085,500 · OtherLOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION: $8,723,100 · OtherBETTER MARKETS INC: $16,604,000 · OtherBETTER MARKETS INCISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $6,680,000 · Other+91 more: $149,748,788 · Other+91 moreCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $6,223,000 · EducationCITYSCHOOLS COLLA…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5,945,100 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNI…THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $5,521,200 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIV…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $4,399,970 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MAR…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $3,334,673 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,250,350 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $2,548,902 · EducationBULLIS SCHOOL: $2,218,014 · Education+24 more: $32,723,128 · Education+24 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $9,106,537 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNIT…AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $9,098,791 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN END…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $3,800,973 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHI…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,800,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISE…THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $2,990,158 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH F…MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $2,791,559 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANL…BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,148,112 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $1,861,608 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $1,628,689 · PhilanthropyBANYAN TREE FOUNDATION: $1,555,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $7,091,960 · Philanthropy+7 moreDC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT: $9,578,800 · Human ServicesDC ACTION …GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC: $4,620,860 · Human ServicesGREATER WA…UNITED COMMUNITIES AGAINST POVERTY INC: $1,810,000 · Human ServicesBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $1,795,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,618,573 · Human ServicesFAIR CHANCE: $1,560,684 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $1,294,272 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,292,250 · Human Services+15 more: $15,081,282 · Human Services+15 moreTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $4,592,660 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,555,980 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $1,947,000 · Arts & CultureThe Studio Theatre Inc: $1,865,000 · Arts & CultureROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $1,737,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefield Trust: $1,703,763 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $1,650,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,594,272 · Arts & CultureLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $1,372,500 · Arts & CultureATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $1,335,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $1,285,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION: $1,165,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $1,036,500 · Arts & CultureCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC: $1,036,257 · Arts & CultureTHE SOURCE FOR LEARNING INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $3,655,019 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S TABLE SO INC: $9,422,105 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $5,211,389 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $3,802,491 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $2,448,128 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $1,944,515 · Food & NutritionTHE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC: $1,277,800 · Food & NutritionFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $7,139,165 · Community ImprovementBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $4,349,500 · Community ImprovementCAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATION: $3,023,601 · Community ImprovementEMPOWER DC: $2,266,631 · Community ImprovementDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $1,856,000 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementPRINCE GEORGE'S FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $1,025,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $903,250 · Community Improvement
Other$191,841,388Education$66,164,337Philanthropy$45,873,387Human Services$38,652,221Arts & Culture$29,530,951Food & Nutrition$24,106,428Community Improvement$22,063,147

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETTER MARKETS INC: $16,604,000 over 9y, 93% of budgetDC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT: $9,578,800 over 5y, 16% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE SO INC: $9,422,105 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $9,106,537 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $9,098,791 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $7,139,165 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $6,680,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $6,223,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5,945,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $5,521,200 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $5,211,389 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC: $4,620,860 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $4,592,660 over 9y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $4,399,970 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $4,349,500 over 9y, 15% of budgetUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $4,018,547 over 9y, 18% of budgetReflection Park Inc: $3,825,500 over 5y, 89% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $3,802,491 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $3,800,973 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,800,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIDENTITY INC: $3,797,437 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,425,549 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $3,334,673 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $3,257,990 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,250,350 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,117,166 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetPOLICING EQUITY: $3,057,152 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND INC: $3,025,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetCAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATION: $3,023,601 over 9y, 47% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $2,990,158 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $2,889,466 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $2,875,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $2,791,559 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $2,750,881 over 7y, 27% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,555,980 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $2,548,902 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC: $2,527,725 over 9y, 12% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $2,448,128 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $2,348,500 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $2,313,041 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetEMPOWER DC: $2,266,631 over 9y, 70% of budgetBULLIS SCHOOL: $2,218,014 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $2,200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,148,112 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSOME INC: $2,132,150 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetYouth Invest Partners Inc: $1,990,345 over 8y, 23% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,979,187 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $1,947,000 over 9y, 11% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Morris and Gwendo…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Dimick Foundation Joh…John Edward Fowler Me…William S Abell Found…Kaiser Foundation Hea…World Bank Community …Clark Charitable Foun…Redskin Foundation In…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC211.1× affinity376 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 · 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Washington Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Washington Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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