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The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc

The community foundation for northern virginia's mission is to advance equity across northern virginia through philanthropy and community leadership with the vision of building a community that works for everyone.

$9.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
218
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$675k
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$22MHealth$7.9MHuman Services$4.0MReligion$3.8MArts & Culture$2.7MYouth Development$2.1MEnvironment$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 218 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 218 grants below total $7,057,691, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,423,766 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,366,075 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 $10k37 grants · $262k
  • $10k–50k153 grants · $2.7M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$15,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$119M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$675,000
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (PENN STATE UNIVERSITY)$450,000
CLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES$362,775
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$350,000
NORTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL PARK AUTHORITY (NOVA PARKS)$238,792
CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER$200,000
MOUNTAINSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL$200,000
AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY$200,000
GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND$142,794
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$130,250
ARC OF LOUDOUN$102,000
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC$100,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$92,200
INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION$72,825
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES$67,553
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, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAKE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 8%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 13%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $36k → 20%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 20%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $27k → 20%PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES: $27k → 20%MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $53k → 11%CODE OF SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $60k → 9%ALIVE: $40k → 9%SPECIALLY ADAPTED RESOURCE CLUB (SPARC): $31k → 6%CODE OF SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%THE ARC OF LOUDOUN: $140k → 4%LOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC LOUDOUN ABUSED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $47k → 4%LOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC LOUDOUN ABUSED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $44k → 4%THE ARC OF LOUDOUN: $40k → 4%ARC OF LOUDOUN: $32k → 4%THE ARC OF LOUDOUN: $30k → 4%LOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC LOUDOUN ABUSED WOMEN'S SHELTER: $28k → 4%PURCELLVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $47k → 4%L'ARCHE GREATER WASHINGTON DC: $250k → 14%HEALTH TANZANIA FOUNDATION: $49k → 7%HEALTH TANZANIA FOUNDATION: $35k → 7%HEALTH TANZANIA FOUNDATION: $33k → 7%HEALTH TANZANIA FOUNDATION: $28k → 7%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $34k → 7%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $38k → 14%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $54k → 7%UNITED COMMUNITY: $113k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $69k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $60k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $50k → 6%SECOND STORY: $36k → 6%SECOND STORY: $34k → 6%INFANT TODDLER FAMILY DAY CARE: $200k → 6%FACETS: $27k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $46k → 6%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $30k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $81k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $54k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $52k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $29k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $235k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $91k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $70k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $68k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $40k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $37k → 6%NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE: $26k → 6%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

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MN
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MI
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OR
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
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CA
CO
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VA
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DE
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TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45M · 366 repeat orgs$8.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

366 repeat relationships: 159 still active in FY2025, 207 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

366
289

Total granted

$45M
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+12%

Still filing today

87%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 ServicesHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +37%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +10%
  • IH
    INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue +63%
  • LI
    LARCHE Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +38%
  • SO
    ST OLAF COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $101k · revenue +38%
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
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
3
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
4
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.

Science & Tech
5
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
9
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
10
Virginia Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives

Trade association for electric cooperatives

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11
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Coalition for Queer Creative Arts Therapies Inc. 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

648 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. 648 of the 748 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
142
Early backer (in before they grew)
636/648
Grantees still filing
432/648
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,681,535 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $3,282,550 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $1,549,000 · EducationAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATIONMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $1,151,050 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCMOUNTAINSIDE MONTESSORI: $1,046,000 · EducationMOUNTAINSIDE MONTESSORI+26 more: $3,350,113 · Education+26 morePENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,375,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYLIVING HOPE EPC: $1,300,000 · OtherLIVING HOPE EPCNORTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL PARK AUTHORITY: $563,496 · Other+88 more: $10,568,226 · Other+88 moreINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $3,097,981 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SY…The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $1,020,200 · HealthThe Virginia Ho…CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC: $400,000 · HealthCHAPEL HAVEN SC…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $267,500 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $220,000 · Health+16 more: $1,478,311 · Health+16 moreNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $671,037 · Human ServicesNORTHERN V…THE ARC OF LOUDOUN: $419,265 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF…UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $339,500 · Human ServicesUNITED COM…Capital Hospice: $275,117 · Human ServicesCapital Ho…LARCHE Inc: $250,000 · Human ServicesLARCHE IncPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $242,183 · Human ServicesPATRICK HE…INFANT TODDLER FAMILY DAYCARE OF NORTHERN VA INC: $218,099 · Human ServicesINFANT TOD…LOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $162,000 · Human ServicesABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC: $158,000 · Human ServicesSPECIALLY ADAPTED RESOURCE CLUBS: $151,000 · Human ServicesHealth Tanzania Foundation: $144,500 · Human Services+15 more: $1,041,782 · Human Services+15 moreTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $265,250 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN VIRGINIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $193,400 · Arts & CultureBALLETX: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureLOUDOUN LAURELS: $122,500 · Arts & CultureSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $121,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $120,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN VIRGINIA FINE ARTS ASSOC: $83,000 · Arts & CultureCreative Cauldron Inc: $80,000 · Arts & CultureHALCYON HOUSE: $80,000 · Arts & CultureNational Museum of Americans in Wartime: $79,000 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $65,600 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES: $459,432 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $201,647 · PhilanthropyYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $180,000 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $142,794 · PhilanthropyGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $135,826 · PhilanthropyPebble Beach Company Foundation: $125,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNOVA LABS INC: $91,976 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINC: $59,800 · Philanthropy+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $888,000 · Recreation & SportsUPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC: $340,000 · Recreation & SportsROAD TO THE TOP INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$17,060,248Other$13,806,722Health$6,483,992Human Services$4,072,483Arts & Culture$1,704,750Philanthropy$1,646,475Recreation & Sports$1,328,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,681,535 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $3,282,550 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $3,097,981 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION: $1,549,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $1,151,050 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetMOUNTAINSIDE MONTESSORI: $1,046,000 over 6y, 83% of budgetThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $1,020,200 over 3y, 44% of budgetNorthwestern University: $888,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC: $671,037 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $547,610 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLA COCINA VA: $460,050 over 7y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES: $459,432 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF LOUDOUN: $419,265 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC: $400,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJOB'S DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL: $400,000 over 9y, 26% of budgetCLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES: $362,775 over 1y, 14% of budgetNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $350,539 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetUPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC: $340,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $339,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $310,208 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $300,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEDUTUTOR OF VIRGINIA INC: $293,774 over 3y, 72% of budgetCapital Hospice: $275,117 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $267,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $265,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLARCHE Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $242,183 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $224,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $220,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetINFANT TODDLER FAMILY DAYCARE OF NORTHERN VA INC: $218,099 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $218,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $201,647 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCULPEPER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $195,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetAMARA LEGAL CENTER: $195,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $193,400 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $189,725 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $180,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $180,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $178,750 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Coalition for Haiti: $168,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $164,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $162,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC: $161,512 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTHE HOUSE INC: $160,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC: $158,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetABUSED AND HOMELESS CHILDREN'S REFUGE INC: $158,000 over 7y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAINSIDE MONTESSORI ↗
  • Who funds The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LA COCINA VA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LOUDOUN AND NORTHERN FAUQUIER COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF LOUDOUN ↗
  • Who funds CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JOB'S DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CLAUDE MOORE OPPORTUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds EDUTUTOR OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Capital Hospice ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
  • Who funds LARCHE Inc ↗
  • Who funds PATRICK HENRY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
  • Who funds INFANT TODDLER FAMILY DAYCARE OF NORTHERN VA INC ↗
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗

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.

United Way of the Nat…Philip L Graham Fund …Act for AlexandriaCommunity Foundation …The Morris and Gwendo…The Jv Schiro Zavela …Clark-Winchcole Found…Arlington Community F…Washington Forrest Fo…Greater Washington Co…Dominion Energy Chari…Van Metre Companies F…
United Way of the National Capital AreaVA124.6× affinity90 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Act for Alexandria · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Arlington Community Foundation · Washington Forrest Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc

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 The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Capital Hospice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
71report 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
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 748 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 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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