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Rotary Foundation of Washington DC

To engage in works of charity of every description and to collect, hold and administer funds to carry on charitable activities.

$418k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$96k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Youth Development$798kEducation$260kEnvironment$133kFood & Nutrition$60kHuman Services$40kCivil Rights$40kCrime & Legal$40kHealth$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $200,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $417,987 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $217,987 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 · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $99k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys and Girls Club$96,000
Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Ca$20,000
Food Rescue US DC$20,000
The Salvation Army$20,000
Everyone Home DC$20,000
National Park ServiceTrees$18,750
Baltimore Rotary Foundation$5,250
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 (FY21–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Access Youth: $20k → 14%Access Youth: $20k → 14%Everyone Home DC: $20k → 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.

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 9 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +165% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$1.2M
$286k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+165%
0%

Still filing today

56%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $718k · revenue +128%
  • MC
    MULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM
    3× · 2018–2023 · $140k · revenue +24%
  • FM
    Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop
    4× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • W8
    Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +161%
  • TR
    TEENS RUN DC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -34%
  • LT
    LIGHT THE WAY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +123% · 52% of their budget

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
Girls On the Run - Dc

Girls on the Run-DC is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with the mission of inspiring girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum that creatively integrates running.

Youth Development
2
Global Kids Inc

Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.

Youth Development
3
Latinas Leading Tomorrow

Connect and expose Latinas to opportunities that enrich their future through education mentoring and leadership development.

Human Services
4
Dc Alliance of Youth Advocates

Coalition with district of columbia to promote and propel youth into productive and healthy adulthood.

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5
The Young Women's Project

Ywp builds the leadership and power of young people so that they can transform dc institutions to expand rights and opportunities for dc youth. ywp programs engage youth on three levels - as peer educators, advocates, and employees - and…

Education
6
Dc Action for Children Today Dc Act

We're making the District of Columbia a place where all kids grow up safe, resilient, powerful and heard. DC Action uses research, data, and a racial equity lens to break down barriers that stand in the way of all kids reaching their full…

Human Services
7
Ward 7 Blue Bulls Youth Organization

To empower and uplift the youth in under-resourced areas through comprehensive programming that takes a holistic approach for no cost or financial burden.

Recreation & Sports
8
Technology Playground

Technology Playground is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering youth in Washington, DC, by equipping them with the tools, knowledge, and experiences necessary to break the cycle of poverty. The organization addresses economic…

Youth Development
9
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
10
Earth Conservation Corps

To reclaim the Anacostia River, our communities and our lives.

Environment
11
Dc Community Development Consortium Institute
Community Improvement
12
I Believe in Me Girls Inc

The mission of IBIM Girls is to empower girls to B.E.L.I.E.V.E (Become Emerging Leaders Inspiring Excellence and Values Everyday) through group mentoring and leadership training necessary to become responsible, productive and successful…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The First Tee of Greater Washington Dc Langston Golf Course and the most unlike its peers is Anacostia Watershed Society Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr18%28%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr15%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr18%8%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr15%59%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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/30
the rest of the field
12%
1,599/12,971

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 30 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $717,900 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATEMULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM — $140,000 · OtherMULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAMNational Park Services — $51,125 · Other+15 more — $314,150 · Other+15 moreFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop — $80,000 · EducationGENERATION HOPE — $20,000 · EducationACCESS INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesEveryone Home DC — $20,000 · Human ServicesBREM FOUNDATION TO DEFEAT BREAST CANCER — $20,000 · HealthSMITH FARM LTD — $20,000 · HealthWard 8 Woods Conservancy Inc — $20,000 · EnvironmentANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentTEENS RUN DC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentiFly Youth Incorporated — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIGHT THE WAY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyBECKY LEE WOMENS SUPPORT FUND — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,223,175Education$100,000Human Services$60,000Health$40,000Environment$40,000Youth Development$40,000Philanthropy$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE — $717,900 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM — $140,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetFree Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop — $80,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetDC Urban Greens Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetACCESS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER — $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWard 8 Woods Conservancy Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTEENS RUN DC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLIGHT THE WAY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetBECKY LEE WOMENS SUPPORT FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENERATION HOPE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChrist House — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKINGMAN BOYS CLUB INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJubilee Jumpstart — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE — $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE THEATRE LAB INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetiFly Youth Incorporated — $20,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VALLEY OF GUATEMALA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNDYING HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC — $6,150 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBALTIMORE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $5,250 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

Greater Washington Co…Philip L Graham Fund …United Way of the Nat…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark-Winchcole Found…Nora Roberts Foundati…Dimick Foundation Joh…Harman Family Foundat…Venable Foundation IncCongressional Sports …Redskin Foundation In…John Edward Fowler Me…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC30.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Harman Family Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Congressional Sports for Charity · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation

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 Rotary Foundation of Washington DC 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Foundation of the University of the Valley of Guatemala — 100% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Food Rescue Us Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 30 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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