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Halcyon House

Halcyon lifts up innovators and creators who seek to make the world a better place, giving them the tools and opportunities they need to bring their ideas to life.

$383k
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$50k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Halcyon House funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$50k100%
FY20201$75kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Public Safety & Disaster$75kCommunity Improvement$50k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Georgetown Business Improvement District Inc$75,16211%
Black Girl Ventures Foundation$50,00012%

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About Halcyon House

How much does Halcyon House give?
Halcyon House reported 1 itemized grants totaling $50,000, out of $382,856 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Halcyon House fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (60%), Community Improvement (40%).
Who are Halcyon House's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Georgetown Business Improvement District Inc ($75k), Black Girl Ventures Foundation ($50k).
Does Halcyon House fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Halcyon House based?
Halcyon House is based in DC.

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 2 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $439k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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