How much does Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments give?

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments reported 15 itemized grants totaling $2,115,954, out of $2,193,525 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

Who are Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Capitol Hill Village ($2.3M), Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc ($2.1M), The Arc of Northern Virginia ($1.5M).

Does Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, National Council on Aging Inc, United Way of the National Capital Area.

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

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Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Q: What does Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Health (20%), Community Improvement (13%).

Q: Where is Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments based?

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments is based in DC.

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$385k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$6.5MHealth$3.2MCommunity Improvement$2.2MScience & Tech$1.6MPublic Benefit$1.1MEducation$607kPublic Safety & Disaster$495kEmployment$376kOther$0

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 15 grants below total $2,115,954, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,193,525 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,571 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

States reached

$72M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 23 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEmploymentPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +9%
TT
TETRA TECH INC
one grant, 2021 · $343k
DP
DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2021 · $220k

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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.

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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.

Public Benefit

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

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

Virginia Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives

Trade association for electric cooperatives

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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

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

SpArc Services

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

Employment

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

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

Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Greater Prince William/Insight Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

14/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,885,290Human Services$4,992,957Health$1,335,063Community Improvement$800,640Employment$207,101Philanthropy$64,470Arts & Culture$24,730

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Bigger dots raise more.

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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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home