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Kiwanis International K00127 Washington

The kiwanis club of washington, d.c.

$218k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Housing & Shelter$575kYouth Development$327kEducation$69kHuman Services$11kHealth$6kCommunity Improvement$5kCivil Rights$3kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $105,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $217,839 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $112,839 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SMYAL WASHINGTON DC$100,000
CITY BLOSSOMS WASHINGTON DC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $322k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOFFMAN HOSPICE: $200 → 18%ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY: $5k → 11%SMYAL WASHINGTON DC: $106k → 14%SMYAL WASHINGTON DC: $100k → 14%SMYAL WASHINGTON DC: $100k → 14%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK: $6k → 14%SMYAL WASHINGTON DC: $3k → 14%CAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE: $824 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$962k · 9 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +228% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
19

Total granted

$962k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+228%
+23%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BB
    BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $506k · revenue +249%
  • SI
    SMYAL Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $315k · revenue +46%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +295%

Funded once

  • SB
    SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +66%
  • DS
    DC SCORESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +26%
  • DO
    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +323%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education
2
Cityworks Dc

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…

Education
3
Wonders Early Learning Extended Day

To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.

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4
Kipp Dc Public Charter Schools

Kipp dc is the largest public charter school network in washington, d.c., serving more than 7,300 students from prek-12th grade. we are dedicated to supporting students who have historically lacked access to high-quality educational…

Education
5
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

—
6
Dc Policy Center

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…

Public Benefit
7
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
8
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
9
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
10
Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement
11
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
12
District of Columbia International School

To inspire inquiring, engaged, knowledgeable and caring secondary students who are multilingual, culturally competent, and committed to proactively creating a socially just and sustainable world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spur Local Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reading Is Fundamental Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%54%35–55yr17%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr16%1%20–35yr13%94%35–55yr17%0%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
13%
3,646/28,365

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.

04the grantee network

28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $506,000 · OtherBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $50,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INCDC PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $29,592 · Other+8 more — $26,498 · OtherSMYAL Inc — $314,550 · Human ServicesSMYAL Inc+3 more — $7,024 · Human ServicesTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $30,000 · EducationDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM — $5,000 · EducationDC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL COOPERATIVE INC — $2,500 · Education+2 more — $1,960 · EducationCITY BLOSSOMS INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC — $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $2,500 · HealthEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $500 · HealthKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropySPUR LOCAL INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION — $4,778 · Community Improvement
Other$612,090Human Services$321,574Education$39,460Youth Development$12,000Health$5,500Philanthropy$5,000Community Improvement$4,778

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $506,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSMYAL Inc — $314,550 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSARAH'S CIRCLE — $14,034 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCITY BLOSSOMS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDC SCORES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION — $4,778 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTERRIFIC Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL COOPERATIVE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPUR LOCAL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARCH ON — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $960 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL PRIDE ALLIANCE INC — $824 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoffmann Hospice of The Valley — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA LOVING HOUND RESCUE — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Welfare League of Arlington — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…United Way of the Nat…World Bank Community …Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…John Edward Fowler Me…Dimick Foundation Joh…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Nora Roberts Foundati…Truist Foundation IncThe Annette M Lerner …
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC27.7× affinity11 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 · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc

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 International K00127 Washington 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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