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Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
144
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$4.9MHuman Services$4.7MHealth$3.3MFood & Nutrition$3.0MHousing & Shelter$3.0MCrime & Legal$2.3MYouth Development$1.9MArts & Culture$1.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 144 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 144 grants below total $5,012,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,850,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $838,000 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 $10k60 grants · $212k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k38 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$87M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Capital Area Food Bank$500,000
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital dba Georgetown Medical Center Inc$250,000
Doorways for Women & Families, Inc.$150,000
Northern Virginia Dental Clinic, Inc.$150,000
Project Create$150,000
Building Bridges Across the River$100,000
United Way of the National Capital Area$100,000
Cornerstones, Inc.$80,000
Horton's Kids, Inc.$75,000
Little Lights Urban Ministries$75,000
Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys$75,000
Calvary Women's Services$75,000
Center City Public Charter Schools$75,000
Jill's House, Inc.$75,000
St. Ann's Center for Children, Youth and Families$75,000
02Your 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 157 repeat orgs$8.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

157 repeat relationships — 95 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

157
151

Total granted

$19M
$6.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+23%

Still filing today

85%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +39%
  • DO
    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +378%
  • TD
    THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $475k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • HO
    HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +28%
  • BM
    BISHOP MCNAMARA HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +90%

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

03Your 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
Thrive Dc

Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Food & Nutrition
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
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…

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4
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
5
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
6
Act for Alexandria

Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.

Community Improvement
7
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
8
Washington Voa Living Center

Low-income housing.

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9
Dc Bar Pro Bono Center

The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains…

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10
Community of Hope

Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.

Community Improvement
11
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
12
District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Anacostia Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducation Equity InitiativesImmigrant and Latino Integr…Community Theater CompaniesCivil Legal ServicesSenior Support ServicesClassical Music OrchestrasDomestic Violence and Sexua…Professional Dance CompaniesAddiction & Mental Health T…Early Childhood Care CentersCommunity Arts CentersGovernment Accountability &…Affordable Housing Construc…Food Pantries and AssistanceLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Advocacy and …Faith-Based Homeless Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsAsian American Civic & Cult…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Jewish Community FederationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Women's Empowerment Organiz…Urban Agriculture EducationYouth Development CentersUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity Hospital SystemsAnimal Rescue and ShelterChildhood Cancer SupportCharter and Independent Sch…Community Literacy TutoringCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr16%34%35–55yr15%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr16%39%35–55yr15%13%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%2/304
the rest of the field
13%
1,600/12,697

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.

03the grantee network

296 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. 296 of the 352 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
291/296
Grantees still filing
214/296
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MedStar Georgetown University Hospital dba Georgetown Medical Center Inc — $500,000 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $475,000 · Other+94 more — $9,189,500 · Other+94 moreGREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $263,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC DIAPER …NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC — $220,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN VIRGINIA …VOLARE — $190,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR OTHERS INC — $183,500 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC — $175,000 · Human ServicesMAMATOTO VILLAGE INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesSt Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — $175,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $150,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES INC — $145,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INC — $135,000 · Human Services+27 more — $1,997,500 · Human Services+27 moreDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM — $1,000,000 · EducationDISTRICT OF C…A WIDER CIRCLE INC — $200,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCL…APPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION — $150,000 · EducationCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING — $150,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL — $150,000 · EducationWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $145,000 · EducationSTATESMEN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR BOYS — $100,000 · EducationMONUMENT ACADEMY INC — $100,000 · Education+14 more — $840,000 · Education+14 moreCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $1,805,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AR…BREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $109,000 · Food & NutritionNOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC — $87,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more — $228,500 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH — $300,000 · HealthNEIGHBORH…Mobile Medical Care Inc — $200,000 · HealthMobile Me…IDENTITY INC — $200,000 · HealthIDENTITY …NORTHERN VIRGINIA DENTAL CLINIC INC — $150,000 · HealthNORTHERN …PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC — $140,000 · HealthPLANNED P…WOODLEY HOUSE INC — $125,000 · HealthWOODLEY H…PREGNANCY AID CENTERS INC — $86,000 · HealthEVERYMIND INC — $85,000 · HealthINSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER — $75,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $75,000 · HealthHOPE CONNECTIONS FOR CANCER SUPPORT INC — $75,000 · HealthPATHWAY HOMES INC — $75,000 · Health+8 more — $410,000 · Health+8 moreDISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC — $340,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF RUTH — $232,500 · Housing & ShelterCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $225,000 · Housing & ShelterVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES — $200,000 · Housing & ShelterCARPENTER'S SHELTER INC — $116,000 · Housing & ShelterShelter House Inc — $115,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO MARYLAND INC — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterChrist House — $65,000 · Housing & ShelterStepping Stones Shelter Inc — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER — $195,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT CREATE — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentLittle Lights Urban Ministries Inc — $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMING OUT LOUD INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentKID POWER INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentARTPRENEURS INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCITY BLOSSOMS INC — $50,000 · Youth Development
Other$10,164,500Human Services$3,809,000Education$2,835,000Food & Nutrition$2,229,500Health$1,996,000Housing & Shelter$1,418,500Youth Development$880,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $1,805,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM — $1,000,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $475,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC — $340,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA — $300,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH — $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $263,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC — $250,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetWILLIAM WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS AND HEALING — $235,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $232,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $225,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $224,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC — $220,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES — $200,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMobile Medical Care Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetIDENTITY INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER — $195,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVOLARE — $190,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC — $183,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC — $180,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSOME INC — $178,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES — $175,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMAMATOTO VILLAGE INC — $175,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES — $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — $175,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPathForward Inc — $164,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT CREATE — $150,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMY SISTER'S PLACE INC — $150,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAPPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA — $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA DENTAL CLINIC INC — $150,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING — $150,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Women's Center — $150,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCORNERSTONES INC — $145,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $145,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC — $140,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAYUDA INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $125,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWOODLEY HOUSE INC — $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER — $125,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc — $123,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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…Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…Greater Washington Co…John Edward Fowler Me…William S Abell Found…The Community Foundat…Dimick Foundation Joh…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Nora Roberts Foundati…Venable Foundation IncWorld Bank Community …
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC261.5× affinity159 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 · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company?

Find your warmest path to Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 352 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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