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The Cpmg Foundation at a glance

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The Cpmg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$57k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$220kArts & Culture$115kCommunity Improvement$72kHuman Services$32kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$24kPhilanthropy$19kHealth$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,564
STEP AFRIKA$5,000
ANACOSTIA COORDINATING COUNCIL$5,000
RENDER CREATIVE INC$5,000
POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE$3,000
JUBILEE HOUSING$3,000
HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT$3,000
DANCE PLACE$2,500
GIRLS GLOBAL ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL$2,500
CHILDHOOD APRAXIA OF SPEECH ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA$2,000
ASALH ASSOC FOR STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
FORT LINCOLN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC$1,000
LORTON COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $49k) 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 its 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: $3k → 14%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $2k → 14%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
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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$485k · 27 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
35

Total granted

$485k
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

74%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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

  • IF
    INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +76%
  • SU
    STEPAFRIKA USA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +51%
  • TR
    THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • EC
    EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +81%
  • SA
    STABEL ARTSORG
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • RS
    ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -5%
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
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 by three…

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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
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
5
Washington Dc Economic Partnership

The washington, dc economic partnership is a public-private organization dedicated to expanding commerce in the district of columbia.

Community Improvement
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
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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8
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
9
Fair Chance

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

Human Services
10
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
11
The Arc of the District of Columbia Inc

To improve the quality of life for all persons with intellectual disabilities and their families through supports and advocacy.

Human Services
12
Washington Project for the Arts Inc

Washington project for the arts, inc. (wpa) supports artist-driven projects, advocacy, and dialogue so that artists can live, work, and flourish.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Washington Commanders Charitable Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Anacostia Coordinating Council 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

45 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. 45 of the 67 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
26/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT (BROOKLAND CENTER): $80,175 · OtherHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT (BROOKLAND CENTER)Individual grant recipient: $54,564 · OtherIndividual grant recipientANACOSTIA COORDINATING COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · OtherANACOSTIA COORDINATING COUNCIL INCRYAN KERRIGAN'S BLITZ FOR THE BETTER FOUNDATION: $13,650 · OtherWARD 8 ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL: $10,140 · OtherSTABEL ARTSORG: $10,000 · OtherSTABLE ARTSORG: $10,000 · OtherJUBILEE HOUSING INC: $9,000 · Other+30 more: $63,650 · Other+30 moreEARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationEARLY CHILDHOOD ACADE…THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCH…THE WASHINGTON COMMANDERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,400 · EducationTHE WASHINGTON COMMAN…POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $8,000 · EducationPOSITIVE COACHING ALL…William O Lockridge Community Foundation: $6,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationSTEPAFRIKA USA INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPAFRIKA USA I…DANCE PLACE: $20,907 · Arts & CultureDANCE PLACEHALCYON HOUSE: $13,000 · Arts & CultureHALCYON HOUSEWORLD ARTS FOCUS: $7,500 · Arts & CultureWORLD ARTS FOCUSRENDER CREATIVE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureRENDER CREATIVE …+2 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterINITIATIVE FO…Friendship Place: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterFriendship Pl…+1 more: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterFlorence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington: $21,000 · Human ServicesDC WISE Inc: $13,600 · Human ServicesHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $7,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTENING: $1,967 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesApraxia Kids: $7,000 · HealthROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC: $5,150 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $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$266,179Education$116,900Arts & Culture$89,407Housing & Shelter$77,500Human Services$48,817Health$20,336Community Improvement$10,500

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 budgetINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTEPAFRIKA USA INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington: $21,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDANCE PLACE: $20,907 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetANACOSTIA COORDINATING COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% 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 budgetJUBILEE HOUSING INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Rhode Island Ave NE: $8,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ARTS FOCUS: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLorton Community Action Center Inc: $7,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetApraxia Kids: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWilliam O Lockridge Community Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC: $5,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE HUB WORCESTER: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKELLER WILLIAMS REALTY CARES: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHERS OF PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetURBAN ED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY MECHANICS ASSOCIATION DBA MECHANICS HALL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS GLOBAL ACADEMY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAVE INC DBA PARENTS AMPLIFYING VOICES IN EDUCATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WASHINGTON DC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRun-Hope-Work: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITMAN-WALKER FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTENING: $1,967 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Gurl Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPTOWN COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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…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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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