· Private foundation
Kiwanis Foundation of Alexandria VA Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k31 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Libertys Promise | $20,000 |
| Casa Chirilagua | $20,000 |
| University of Virginia | $18,000 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | $13,000 |
| Alexandria Public Library | $10,000 |
| Healthy Families Alexandria | $5,000 |
| George Washington University | $5,000 |
| Spitfire Club | $4,712 |
| Virginia Tech | $4,000 |
| George Mason University | $4,000 |
| SCAN | $3,000 |
| Friends of Guest House | $2,950 |
| Make-A-Wish Mid Atlantic | $2,500 |
| ScholarCHIPS Inc | $2,500 |
| Community Lodging | $2,300 |
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 (FY17–23, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2023, 26 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $69k · revenue +23%
- HHHOPKINS HOUSE A CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES7× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +13%
- CLCommunity Lodgings Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- WHWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIAone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +20%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- AWAnimal Welfare League of Alexandriaone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
Our mission is to align, strengthen and sustain early childhood systems through collective leadership, equity, and innovation. to ensure every child in the City of Alexandria has a strong start in life.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
See Schedule O.Providing a forum for individuals, businesses and associations engaged in and concerned with the interest and welfare of the Alexandria area, formulating and advocating business positions on critical issues, representing its…
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Alexandria's Children and the most unlike its peers is Alexandria Families for Safe Streets. 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 53 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 91 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 FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS HOUSE A CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds Community Lodgings Inc ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds CASA CHIRILAGUA ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Seaport Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SPITFIRE CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA BASEBALL INC AKA ALEXANDRIA LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare League of Alexandria ↗
- Who funds ScholarCHIPS Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
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: Act for Alexandria · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Bruhn-Morris Family Foundation Inc · Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation · Ivakota Assoc Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Move2Learn · The Comfort Family Foundation · Harry and Zoe Poole 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 Kiwanis Foundation of Alexandria VA Inc 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.
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.
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