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The Concordia Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$209k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$663kInternational$647kReligion$106kRecreation & Sports$75kYouth Development$52kHealth$34kPhilanthropy$26kArts & Culture$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MSFS$7,500
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EDUCARE: $1k → 14%STEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE: $2k → 8%STEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE: $1k → 8%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

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
WY
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 24 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
44

Total granted

$1.5M
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • RI
    REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $590k · revenue +22%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $141k · revenue +47%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MARY LOUIS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • R
    REX
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
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 George Washington University

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…

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
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
4
Fordham University

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.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
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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7
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

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…

Education
8
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

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.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seed Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
35/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $590,256 · InternationalREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INCINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC: $40,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INCCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE: $35,500 · International+6 more: $16,790 · InternationalTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $352,400 · EducationTHE SEED FOUNDATIONGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $141,200 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $24,500 · Education+9 more: $20,750 · EducationFAIRWINDS: $70,000 · OtherFAIRWINDSCHRIST CHURCH PARISH OF GEORGETOWN: $60,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH PARISH…SIASCONSET UNION CHAPEL: $40,750 · OtherSIASCONSET UNION CHA…+39 more: $137,018 · Other+39 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $5,500 · PhilanthropyKARAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGEISMAR FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $13,500 · HealthTHE CAMERON AND HAYDEN LORD FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health+2 more: $750 · HealthHUMANITY FUNDS: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterThe Yellow Door Foundation Inc: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HAVEN INC: $1,250 · Housing & Shelter
International$683,046Education$613,850Other$307,768Philanthropy$24,500Health$15,250Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Housing & Shelter$7,250

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 budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $590,256 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $352,400 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $141,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC: $40,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE: $35,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $13,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANITY FUNDS: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Yellow Door Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKARAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDC SCORES: $4,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN: $4,040 over 2y, 0.2% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC: $3,668 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPPING STONE CHARLOTTESVILLE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGEISMAR FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPARK THE JOURNEY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAVEN INC: $1,250 over 1y, 16% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDENT HOUSE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINA ORTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCARE DC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST BARTHOLOMEW'S ANGLICAN CHURCH: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Capital Poison Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
  • Who funds THE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds DC SCORES ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN ↗
  • Who funds 'SCONSET TRUST 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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Quantitative Foundati…Richard E & Nancy P M…Perry Foundation IncCharlottesville Area …The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Winston-Salem Fou…National Philanthropi…Adler Family Foundati…Citybridge FoundationCaplin Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC20.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Concordia Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Concordia Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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