· Private foundation
The Concordia Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE SEED FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH GEORGETOWN | $30,000 |
| REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| FAIRWINDS | $11,000 |
| THE HUMANITY FUNDS | $10,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MSFS | $7,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| SIASCONSET UNION CHAPEL | $5,000 |
| IREX | $5,000 |
| WOMENS INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| NEW CITY ARTS | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| STEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- RIREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $590k · revenue +22%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2022 · $141k · revenue +47%
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TMTHE MARY LOUIS ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $10k
- RREXone grant, 2021 · $7k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSONone grant, 2021 · $7k
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 mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seed Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Cameron and Hayden Lord Foundation. 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.
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 field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 76 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 REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds HUMANITY FUNDS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds PEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Yellow Door Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds DC SCORES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN ↗
- Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST INC ↗
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 · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Quantitative Foundation · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Winston-Salem Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Adler Family Foundation Inc · Citybridge Foundation · Caplin 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 The Concordia 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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.
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