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The DSFederal IDEA Foundation
DSFederal IDEA Foundation is founded on the belief that to unleash the potential of an Afghan woman, they need only the opportunity, for strength and power already lie within them.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $112,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $115,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,100 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Amitofo Care Center International (ACCI) | $50,000 |
| CollegeTracks | $27,600 |
| University System of Maryland Foundation | $25,000 |
| New Hope Foundation | $10,000 |
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 US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($712k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($122k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% 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
Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($122k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of The DSFederal IDEA Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% 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
- ACAMITOFO CARE CENTER INTERNATIONAL3× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +47% · 40% of their budget
- CICOLLEGETRACKS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $88k · revenue +2%
- NHNEW HOPE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC3× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- ACAmitofo Care Centerone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CSCatholic St Joseph Technical High Schoolone grant, 2023 · $50k
- OOORDERMINISTERS OF THE INFIRMone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
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Hamilton-madison house is a non-profit settlement house that has been the place for care and connection for the diverse populations of the lower east side since 1898. based in the lower east side but offering programming citywide, we…
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
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Generation hope surrounds motivated teen parents and their children with the mentors, emotional support, and financial resources that they need to thrive in college and kindergarten, thereby driving a two-generation solution to pverty.
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Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childhelp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citizen Power Initiatives for China Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 33 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 AMITOFO CARE CENTER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COLLEGETRACKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AND HOMES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN POWER INITIATIVES FOR CHINA INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINE VOLYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MELTING POT FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP 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 · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 DSFederal IDEA 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 0% 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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