· Private foundation
If Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $835k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LEADERSHIP GREATER WASHINGTON | $25,000 |
| MOTHERS OUTREACH NETWORK INC | $25,000 |
| FESTIVAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| GATEWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| CONCERNED CITIZENS NETWORK OF ALEXANDRIA | $20,000 |
| FESTIVAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| SOUTH RICHMOND ADULT DAY CARE CENTER | $20,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA COMMUNITY VOICE | $20,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND | $20,000 |
| LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $770k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- ISIMPACT SILVER SPRING6× · 2017–2022 · $195k · revenue +14%
- VOVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC5× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +4%
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- WAWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +67%
- PFPillars Fundgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +149%
- TFTIDES FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES FUNDone grant, 2017 · $40k
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.
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.
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…
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Strengthen sustainability of community based non-profits to benefit those experiencing poverty.
We're making the District of Columbia a place where all kids grow up safe, resilient, powerful and heard. DC Action uses research, data, and a racial equity lens to break down barriers that stand in the way of all kids reaching their full…
Founded in 1998, dc vote is a national citizen engagement and advocacy organization dedicated to strengthening democracy and securing equality for all in the district of columbia.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
Greater Greater Washington Commons (GGWash Commons) aims to build civic capacity through media, education, and engagement, to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice in land use, transportation, and housing throughout Greater…
The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…
Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement
To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Coalition of 100 Black Women. 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 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
112 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. 112 of the 156 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
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 GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MONTGOMERY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT SILVER SPRING ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC ↗
- Who funds TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds PRIMARY CARE COALITION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds MANY LANGUAGES ONE VOICE ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR SAFE SPACES ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUTREACH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds The Commonwealth Institute for ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Virginia Coalition For Immigrant Rights ↗
- Who funds CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MINISTRY OF PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Festival Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TRABAJADORES UNIDOS DE WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMUNITY VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ↗
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: Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Weissberg Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Borealis Philanthropy · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Potomac Health 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 If 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Arts Focus — 100% of income from government
- Afrithrive Inc — 41% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County Inc — 24% of income from government
- Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- First Generation College Bound Inc — 6% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Ourspace World 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.