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Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$385k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $2,115,954 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,193,525 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,571 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $983k
$92,047
Median grant
3
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARC OF NORTHERN VA$385,143
CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE$340,175
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING$257,723
FAIRFAX COUNTY DEPT OF NEIGHBORHOOD AND$244,757
ARC OF PGC$235,700
DULLES AREA TRANSPORATION ASSN$138,836
EASTER SEALS$96,502
BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC$92,047
YELLOW CAB CO OF DC$89,032
POZEZ JEWISH COMMUNITY CT$69,521
MONTGOMERY COUNTY MD$62,984
DBA KOACH$51,919
CITY OF HYATTSVILLE$29,987
LEISURE WORLD OF MARYLAND$15,262
TRANSIT GROUP INC$6,366
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 (FY19–25, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE: $422k → 14%SUNRISE COMMUNITY OF MD INC: $116k → 15%CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE: $383k → 14%LIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $38k → 8%CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE: $380k → 14%POZEZ JEWISH COMMUNITY CT: $70k → 6%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $528k → 8%CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE: $340k → 14%BOAT PEOPLE: $137k → 6%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $302k → 8%CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE: $289k → 14%BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $92k → 6%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $302k → 8%CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE: $282k → 14%BOAT PEOPLE: $45k → 6%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $258k → 8%CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE: $199k → 14%BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $40k → 6%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $251k → 8%BOAT PEOPLE: $39k → 6%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $240k → 8%BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $19k → 6%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $183k → 8%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $28k → 14%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $9k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CO
VA
MD
DC
FL

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 23 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
18

Total granted

$13M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+13%

Still filing today

52%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEmploymentPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • CH
    CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +53% · 31% of their budget
  • JC
    JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +5%
  • TA
    The Arc of Northern Virginia
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • CC
    CNA CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +7%
  • TT
    TETRA TECH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $343k
  • DP
    DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $220k

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
The Arc of the Capital Area

We empower central texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through compassionate case management and innovative programs.

2
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
3
The Metropolitan Center for Independent Living

The organization offers services to assist people with severe disabilities achieve, maintain, and improve upon an independent lifestyle.the approved mcil mission statement since january 26, 2018, has been and remains: removing barriers,…

Human Services
4
Washington Vocational Services

To provide job development, job seeking skills and job placement for persons with disabilities. we are dedicated to providing outstanding quality services that result in successful community involvement and employment for persons with…

Employment
5
Virginia Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives

Trade association for electric cooperatives

6
Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc

Disability Rights Maryland (DRM) is the only non-profit organization exclusively focused on providing free legal advocacy services to people with all types of disabilities, of all ages and in all settings, statewide.

Crime & Legal
7
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
8
SpArc Services

To provide day programming services that will assist people to learn skills in order to live independently.

Employment
9
First Maryland Disability Trust Inc

To enhance the quality of life, autonomy and dignity of marylanders with disabilities by offering cost effective trust services to protect, manage and use trust assets for beneficiaries while preserving eligibility for public and private…

Human Services
10
Cascade Connections

Cascade connections' mission is: empowering individuals with developmental disabilities to enhance their quality of life. the mission is achieved through its statement of values which includes service excellence, integrity, empowerment,…

Human Services
11
Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services
12
The Arc of Howard County Inc

Achieving full community life for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities - one person at a time.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Greater Prince William/Insight Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dulles Area Transportation Association. 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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Arc of Northern Virginia — $1,490,755 · OtherThe Arc of Northern VirginiaFAIRFAX COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS AND SERVICES — $1,422,155 · OtherFAIRFAX COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS AND SERVICESMONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND — $1,330,349 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLANDCNA CORPORATION — $1,119,956 · OtherCNA CORPORATIONUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $607,013 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKTETRA TECH INC — $343,309 · Other+25 more — $2,571,753 · Other+25 moreCAPITOL HILL VILLAGE — $2,294,539 · Human ServicesCAPITOL HILL VILLAGEJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $2,064,857 · Human ServicesJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GR…BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC — $372,758 · Human ServicesBOAT PEOPLE S O S INC+4 more — $260,803 · Human ServicesUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation — $1,036,544 · HealthUniversit…Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $298,519 · HealthEaster Se…Dulles Area Transportation Association — $760,626 · Community ImprovementTRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR SOUTHERN MARYLAND — $40,014 · Community ImprovementEVERY CITIZEN HAS OPPORTUNITIES INC — $152,113 · EmploymentNEW HORIZONS SUPPORTED SERVICES INC — $54,988 · EmploymentTHE SKILLSOURCE GROUP INC — $64,470 · PhilanthropyCHINESE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC — $24,730 · Arts & Culture
Other$8,885,290Human Services$4,992,957Health$1,335,063Community Improvement$800,640Employment$207,101Philanthropy$64,470Arts & Culture$24,730

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAPITOL HILL VILLAGE — $2,294,539 over 7y, 31% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $2,064,857 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetThe Arc of Northern Virginia — $1,490,755 over 7y, 11% of budgetCNA CORPORATION — $1,119,956 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation — $1,036,544 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDulles Area Transportation Association — $760,626 over 7y, 26% of budgetBOAT PEOPLE S O S INC — $372,758 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc — $298,519 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC — $235,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVERY CITIZEN HAS OPPORTUNITIES INC — $152,113 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSUNRISE COMMUNITY OF MARYLAND INC — $116,248 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE ARC OF GREATER PRINCE WILLIAM/INSIGHT INC — $81,273 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $69,521 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES INC — $67,582 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SKILLSOURCE GROUP INC — $64,470 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW HORIZONS SUPPORTED SERVICES INC — $54,988 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR SOUTHERN MARYLAND — $40,014 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC — $38,103 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND — $36,931 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHINESE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC — $24,730 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE
  • Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC
  • Who funds The Arc of Northern Virginia
  • Who funds CNA CORPORATION
  • Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Corporation
  • Who funds Dulles Area Transportation Association
  • Who funds BOAT PEOPLE S O S INC
  • Who funds Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc
  • Who funds THE ARC OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY INC
  • Who funds EVERY CITIZEN HAS OPPORTUNITIES INC
  • Who funds SUNRISE COMMUNITY OF MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds THE ARC OF GREATER PRINCE WILLIAM/INSIGHT INC
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INC
  • Who funds THE SKILLSOURCE GROUP INC
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS SUPPORTED SERVICES INC
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR SOUTHERN MARYLAND
  • Who funds LIFESTYLES OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC24.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · National Council on Aging Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Resource Connections Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Center for Technology and Civic Life

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 Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Lifestyles of Maryland Foundation Inc42% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc29% of income from government
  • Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland6% of income from government
  • The Arc of Prince George's County Inc2% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Medical System Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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