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National Home Library Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUDON LITERACY COUNCIL | $5,718 |
| Brightwood EC School PTA | $5,000 |
| DC Books to Prison | $5,000 |
| Project Transformation DC | $5,000 |
| The Family Place | $5,000 |
| American Poetry Museum | $5,000 |
| Eastern Shore Literacy Council Inc | $5,000 |
| The Ottley Music School Inc | $5,000 |
| 480 Cares Inc | $5,000 |
| Latin American Youth Center | $5,000 |
| Richard Allen Comm Dev Corp | $5,000 |
| We need Diverse Books | $5,000 |
| CAMP FIRE PATUXENT AREA COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $5,000 |
| The TraRon Center | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of National Home Library Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- DCDEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES6× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +29%
- LLLOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC4× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +27%
- TFTHE FAMILY PLACE3× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- EEDU-FUTUROgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +32%
- CCCOMMUNITY CLINIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +104%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -26%
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.
The campagna center,inc. (the center), is a community-based nonprofit organization in alexandria, va. the center operates a variety of programs to address the needs of children, youth and families. the center provides early childhood…
Jubilee jumpstart prepares children from low-income families for success in school and life.
The literacy cooperative of cleveland was formed for public, charitable, scientific, and educational purposes relating to the improvement of the literacy rate in the greater cleveland area.
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Education
Educare dc's mission is to eliminate the opportunity gap for young children living in poverty and give them the skills necessary for success in kindergarten and beyond. we work at the intersection of practice, policy, and research to…
The Learning Collaborative's mission is to instill children with curiosity, confidence, and a love of learning while embracing and strengthening their families. This is accomplished through tuition-free, high-quality Preschool and Pre-K…
The mission of the family place public charter school is to improve the literacy and workplace skills of low-income limited english proficient adults in the district so that they and their family are self-sustaining, employable and engaged…
At Classroom 2 Community, we EDUCATE adults from underrepresented communities with the skills they need to succeed, EMPOWER them to pursue opportunity and stability, and advance EQUITY by helping them build the financial power to shape…
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
Reading results partners with schools to support students from systemically excluded communities in becoming successful readers. we believe that literacy is a basic human right, and we work to increase access and break down barriers…
The reading team runs two early literacy programs: (1) preschool - 2x/week (2-hrs/session) teachers instruct 3 and 4 year old children on phonemic awareness, letter recognition, and sound manipulation. (2) after-school - 5x/week…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everybody Wins Dc Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Poetry Museum. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 59 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 DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE USA ↗
- Who funds WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE FAIRFAX ↗
- Who funds THE TRARON CENTER ↗
- Who funds TAKING EFFECTIVE ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds All Ages Read Together ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds 480 Cares ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN POETRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DC BOOKS TO PRISONS ↗
- Who funds Ottley Music School Inc ↗
- Who funds EDU-FUTURO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT TRANSFORMATION DC ↗
- Who funds Community Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds EVERYBODY WINS DC INC ↗
- Who funds The SPOKEN WORD The Spoken Word ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Tickets for Kids Foundation · Harry and Zoe Poole Foundation · Miller & Chevalier Charitable Foundation · Congressional Sports for Charity · Hattie M Strong Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund
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 National Home Library 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.
- Community Clinic Inc — 13% 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.