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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.

$116k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$239kEducation$185kHealth$183kArts & Culture$70kReligion$50kHuman Services$32kFood & Nutrition$20kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $112,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $115,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,100 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$27,600
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Amitofo Care Center International (ACCI)$50,000
CollegeTracks$27,600
University System of Maryland Foundation$25,000
New Hope Foundation$10,000
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.

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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDHELP: $2k → 11%HEARTS HOME FOR YOUTH: $20k → 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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC

Beyond the US: 15% of all-years giving ($122k)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Taiwan$102k · 5 grants
Malawi$10k · 1 grant
United Kingdom$10k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of The DSFederal IDEA Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The DSFederal IDEA Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$453k · 7 repeat orgs$381k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
25

Total granted

$453k
$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+11%

Still filing today

57%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionScience & TechOther
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

  • AC
    AMITOFO CARE CENTER INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +47% · 40% of their budget
  • CI
    COLLEGETRACKS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $88k · revenue +2%
  • NH
    NEW HOPE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • CS
    Catholic St Joseph Technical High School
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • AC
    Amitofo Care Center
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • OO
    ORDERMINISTERS OF THE INFIRM
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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 Children's Home Inc

Provides residential and community services to promote long-term well-being and success for young people and families who experience disruption in their lives.

Human Services
2
Us - China Policy Foundation
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3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
5
Hamilton-Madison House Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
7
Association House of Chicago

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…

Human Services
8
Human Rights in China Inc

Human rights in china, founded by chinese students and scholars in march 1989, is an international, chinese, nongovernmental organization with a mission to promote international human rights and advance the institutional protection of…

International
9
Generation Hope

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.

Education
10
Homeless Childrens Network

To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…

Human Services
11
Children's National

Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.

Health
12
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childhelp Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYCatholic St Joseph Technical High School: $50,000 · OtherCatholic St Joseph Technical High SchoolUSMF Inc: $50,000 · OtherUSMF IncAmitofo Care Center: $50,000 · OtherAmitofo Care CenterNEW HOPE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC: $40,000 · OtherNEW HOPE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INCORDERMINISTERS OF THE INFIRM: $30,000 · OtherORDERMINISTERS OF THE INFIRMUNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MD FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherCONGREGATION TIFERETH ZVI: $15,000 · Other+13 more: $76,980 · Other+13 moreAMITOFO CARE CENTER INTERNATIONAL: $160,000 · InternationalAMITOFO CARE CENTER INTER…UKRAINE VOLYA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · InternationalUKRAINE VOLYA FOUNDATIONSave The Children Federation Inc: $13,840 · InternationalSave The Children Federat…COLLEGETRACKS INC: $87,600 · EducationCOLLEGETRACKS I…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF M…+1 more: $2,500 · EducationHEARTS AND HOMES FOR YOUTH INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $20,000 · HealthCHINESE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCITIZEN POWER INITIATIVES FOR CHINA INC: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Other$447,980International$188,840Education$115,100Human Services$22,000Health$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000Civil Rights$20,000

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 budgetAMITOFO CARE CENTER INTERNATIONAL: $160,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetCOLLEGETRACKS INC: $87,600 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNEW HOPE INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHINESE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS AND HOMES FOR YOUTH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITIZEN POWER INITIATIVES FOR CHINA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetUKRAINE VOLYA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $13,840 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMELTING POT FOUNDATION USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMontgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $2,000 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.

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…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 DSFederal IDEA Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The DSFederal IDEA 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 33 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 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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