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The Cpmg Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$220kArts & Culture$115kCommunity Improvement$72kHuman Services$32kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$24kPhilanthropy$19kHealth$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL$10,000
INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY$10,000
HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT (BROOKLAND CENTER)$10,000
ROC SOLID FOUNDATION$5,150
FRIENDSHIP PLACE$5,000
STEP AFRIKA$5,000
ANACOSTIA COORDINATING COUNCIL$5,000
CHILDHOOD APRAXIA OF SPEECH ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA$5,000
MARCH OF DIMES$5,000
STABLE ARTSORG$5,000
WILLIAM LOCKRIDGE EDUCATIONAL AND SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
DANCE PLACE$3,000
JUBILEE HOUSING$3,000
LORTON COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER$2,900
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5k → 11%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $3k → 14%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $2k → 14%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%DC WISE: $9k → 14%DC WISE: $5k → 14%THE PEOPLE WHO CARE PROJECT: $250 → 14%FAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE: $1k → 14%FAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE: $500 → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$429k · 25 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
27

Total granted

$429k
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+16%

Still filing today

72%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther

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

  • IF
    INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +78%
  • TR
    THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +33%
  • SU
    STEPAFRIKA USA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • EC
    EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +81%
  • SA
    STABEL ARTSORG
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue 0%

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
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
2
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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3
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
4
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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5
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
6
Dc Policy Center

The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…

Public Benefit
7
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
8
Act for Alexandria

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

Community Improvement
9
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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10
Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement
11
Greater Washington Partnership

We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.

Recreation & Sports
12
Fair Chance

Strengthen sustainability of community based non-profits to benefit those experiencing poverty.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Ed Inc and the most unlike its peers is Early Childhood Academy Public Charter School. 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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr15%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr18%52%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr15%19%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,956

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

43 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. 43 of the 62 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
24/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT (BROOKLAND CENTER) — $80,175 · OtherHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT (BROOKLAND CENTER)Individual grant recipient — $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRYAN KERRIGAN'S BLITZ FOR THE BETTER FOUNDATION — $13,650 · OtherRYAN KERRIGAN'S BLITZ FOR THE BETTER FOUNDATIONSTABLE ARTSORG — $10,000 · OtherSTABEL ARTSORG — $10,000 · OtherANACOSTIA COORDINATING COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · OtherWARD 8 ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL — $9,640 · Other+27 more — $62,650 · Other+27 moreEARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationEARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEM…THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL — $40,000 · EducationTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHO…THE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $10,400 · EducationTHE WASHINGTON COMMAND…POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $5,000 · EducationWilliam O Lockridge Community Foundation — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $2,500 · EducationSTEPAFRIKA USA INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPAFRIKA USA …DANCE PLACE — $18,407 · Arts & CultureDANCE PLACEHALCYON HOUSE — $13,000 · Arts & CultureHALCYON HOUSEWORLD ARTS FOCUS — $7,500 · Arts & CultureWORLD ARTS FOCU…+2 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterINITIATIVE FO…Friendship Place — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterFriendship Pl…CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterFlorence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington — $21,000 · Human ServicesFlorence …DC WISE Inc — $13,600 · Human ServicesDC WISE I…YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CENT…HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT — $4,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS …FAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTENING — $1,967 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC — $5,150 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $5,000 · HealthApraxia Kids — $5,000 · HealthWHITMAN-WALKER FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · HealthHOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CORP — $1,186 · HealthFriends of Rhode Island Ave NE — $8,500 · Community ImprovementGATEWAY MUNICIPALITIES COMMUNITY — $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$241,115Education$112,900Arts & Culture$76,907Housing & Shelter$67,500Human Services$45,817Health$18,336Community Improvement$10,500

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 budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPAFRIKA USA INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington — $21,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDANCE PLACE — $18,407 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFriendship Place — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDC WISE Inc — $13,600 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetHALCYON HOUSE — $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $10,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetANACOSTIA COORDINATING COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of Rhode Island Ave NE — $8,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD ARTS FOCUS — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLorton Community Action Center Inc — $6,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE HOUSING INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC — $5,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE HUB WORCESTER — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetApraxia Kids — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWilliam O Lockridge Community Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetKELLER WILLIAMS REALTY CARES — $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMOTHERS OF PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPAVE INC DBA PARENTS AMPLIFYING VOICES IN EDUCATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRun-Hope-Work — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION DBA MECHANICS HALL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN ED INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WASHINGTON DC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWHITMAN-WALKER FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTENING — $1,967 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Gurl Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPTOWN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE — $250 over 1y, 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.

Greater Washington Co…United Way of the Nat…The Morris and Gwendo…Philip L Graham Fund …Monumental Sports & E…Dimick Foundation Joh…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Nora Roberts Foundati…McN Build Foundation …Clark Charitable Foun…Td Charitable Foundat…Mid Atlantic Arts Inc
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC32.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · McN Build Foundation Inc · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc

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 Cpmg 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • World Arts Focus — 100% of income from government
  • Worcester County Mechanics Association Dba Mechanics Hall — 2% of income from government
  • Creative Hub Worcester — 0% 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)
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Cpmg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Cpmg 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 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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