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National Home Library Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$162kHuman Services$106kYouth Development$48kHealth$14kArts & Culture$9kReligion$5kCommunity Improvement$3kPhilanthropy$3k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$632k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOUDON LITERACY COUNCIL$5,718
The Family Place$5,000
Project Transformation DC$5,000
Latin American Youth Center$5,000
Richard Allen Comm Dev Corp$5,000
The Ottley Music School Inc$5,000
American Poetry Museum$5,000
DC Books to Prison$5,000
CAMP FIRE PATUXENT AREA COUNCIL$5,000
DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES$5,000
480 Cares Inc$5,000
The TraRon Center$5,000
We need Diverse Books$5,000
Washington Literacy C enter$5,000
Brightwood EC School PTA$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%The TraRon Center: $5k → 14%The TraRon Center: $4k → 14%The TraRon Center: $3k → 14%Project Transformation DC: $5k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $2k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Washington: $5k → 14%FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $500 → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $5k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $5k → 14%Covenant House Greater Washington: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of National Home Library Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

National Home Library Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$219k · 15 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
36

Total granted

$219k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+32%

Still filing today

87%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DC
    DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES
    6× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +29%
  • LL
    LOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +27%
  • ES
    EASTERN SHORE LITERACY COUNCIL
    3× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CLINIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +104%
  • E
    EDU-FUTUROgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +32%
  • FU
    Foundry United Methodist Church
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.

1
The Campagna Center Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Jubilee Jumpstart

Jubilee jumpstart prepares children from low-income families for success in school and life.

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3
The Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland

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.

Education
4
Start Lighthouse

Founded nbsp;in nbsp;bronx nbsp;ny nbsp;start nbsp;lighthouse nbsp;is nbsp;a nbsp;501(c)3 nbsp;nonprofit nbsp;dedicated nbsp;to nbsp;advancing nbsp;childhood nbsp;literacy nbsp;through nbsp;a nbsp;social nbsp;justice nbsp;lense nbsp;start…

Education
5
Apasionado Por La Lectura Family Literacy Program Inc

Education

Education
6
Educare Dc

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…

Human Services
7
The Learning Collaborative

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…

Education
8
The Family Place Public Charter School

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…

Education
9
Classroom 2 Community Inc

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…

Education
10
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

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…

Education
11
Reading Results

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…

—
12
Reading Team Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everybody Wins Dc Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
19/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $35,021 · OtherDEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCESCAMP FIRE USA: $34,000 · OtherCAMP FIRE USALOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $18,718 · OtherLOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INCBrightwood EC School PTA: $15,000 · OtherBrightwood EC School PTAEASTERN SHORE LITERACY COUNCIL: $15,000 · OtherEASTERN SHORE LITERACY COUNCILTHE FAMILY PLACE: $15,000 · OtherTHE FAMILY PLACE+27 more: $69,501 · Other+27 moreWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: $21,000 · EducationWE NEED DIVERSE BOOK…EDUCATE FAIRFAX: $14,500 · EducationEDUCATE FAIRFAXAll Ages Read Together: $6,600 · EducationAll Ages Read Togeth…Ottley Music School Inc: $5,000 · EducationOttley Music School …EDU-FUTURO: $5,000 · EducationEDU-FUTUROEVERYBODY WINS DC INC: $4,000 · EducationEVERYBODY WINS DC IN…READING PARTNERS: $2,500 · EducationFALLS CHURCH-MCLEAN CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $2,250 · Education+3 more: $3,000 · EducationYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $14,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTI…THE TRARON CENTER: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE TRARON CENTERTAKING EFFECTIVE ACTION INC: $9,700 · Human ServicesTAKING EFFECTIVE AC…DC BOOKS TO PRISONS: $5,000 · Human ServicesDC BOOKS TO PRISONSPROJECT TRANSFORMATION DC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT TRANSFORMAT…COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE WASH…Community Services Foundation: $4,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Services …HOPE HOUSE: $2,500 · Human ServicesFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $2,000 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $5,000 · Youth Development480 Cares: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $5,000 · HealthHEALTHY BABIES PROJECT INC: $2,000 · HealthThe SPOKEN WORD The Spoken Word: $3,410 · Arts & CultureWOOD TO WONDERFUL INC: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$202,240Education$63,850Human Services$59,200Youth Development$10,000Health$7,000Arts & Culture$3,410Community Improvement$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $35,021 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FIRE USA: $34,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: $21,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $18,718 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetEASTERN SHORE LITERACY COUNCIL: $15,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATE FAIRFAX: $14,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRARON CENTER: $11,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTAKING EFFECTIVE ACTION INC: $9,700 over 4y, 35% of budgetAll Ages Read Together: $6,600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDC BOOKS TO PRISONS: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN POETRY MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEDU-FUTURO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT TRANSFORMATION DC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Services Foundation: $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYBODY WINS DC INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe SPOKEN WORD The Spoken Word: $3,410 over 3y, 77% of budgetFALLS CHURCH-MCLEAN CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $2,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOR LOVE OF CHILDREN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATION HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFairfax Library Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Co…United Way of the Nat…Nora Roberts Foundati…The Morris and Gwendo…The Community Foundat…John Edward Fowler Me…Tickets for Kids Foun…Harry and Zoe Poole F…Miller & Chevalier Ch…Congressional Sports …Hattie M Strong Found…World Bank Community …
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC29.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 National Home Library Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Home Library Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Community Clinic Inc: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
11report 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
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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