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The Graham Stretch Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$358k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Philanthropy$691kEducation$248kHealth$189kArts & Culture$180kInternational$145kRecreation & Sports$134kHousing & Shelter$86kEnvironment$39kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $240k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMPACTASSETS INC$140,000
SECOND STAGE THEATRE$50,000
CORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL$50,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$33,000
WASHINGTON AREA BICYCLIST ASSOCIATION$25,000
SECOND STAGE THEATRE$15,000
THE BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL INC$10,000
COMMUNITY OF HOPE INC$10,000
POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC$5,000
YALE RUGGERS INC$2,600
DC CHARTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE$2,500
FRIENDS OF VERITAS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC$2,500
MOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC$2,500
MOCO KIDSCO$2,500
STUDIO THEATRE INC$2,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STREET SENSE INC: $15k → 14%STREET SENSE INC: $10k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 41% of The Graham Stretch Family 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.

The Graham Stretch Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$892k · 19 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$892k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+29%

Still filing today

89%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $233k · revenue +135%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +63%
  • WA
    Washington Area Bicyclist Association
    5× · 2019–2024 · $131k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -3%
  • TM
    THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +57%
  • CM
    CASA MARIANELLA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +63%

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
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
2
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
3
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
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
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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6
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
7
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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8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
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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10
Washington Technology Industry Association

To foster a robust, equity-centered technology sector that empowers thriving communities.

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11
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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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everybody Wins Dc Inc and the most unlike its peers is California Alpine Club Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersImmigrant Worker SupportYouth Sports ProgramsElementary Literacy TutoringEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%55%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

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.

05the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IMPACTASSETSINC — $663,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINC+2 more — $28,000 · PhilanthropyCORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL — $233,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF T…+7 more — $12,250 · EducationMOCO KIDSCO INC — $67,500 · Arts & CultureMOCO KIDSCO…THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SECOND …THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM …GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $9,050 · Arts & CultureInternational Rescue Committee INC — $145,000 · InternationalInternati…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $61,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIG…PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - THE BRIGHAM AND W — $60,000 · OtherPARTNERS HEALTHCA…COMMUNITY OF HOPE — $55,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY OF HOPETHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE POTOMAC CONSE…Street Sense Inc — $25,000 · OtherStreet Sense Inc+9 more — $34,750 · Other+9 moreWashington Area Bicyclist Association — $131,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $3,191 · Recreation & SportsMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $50,000 · HealthMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC — $8,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · Health
Philanthropy$691,000Education$245,250Arts & Culture$178,550International$145,000Other$260,750Recreation & Sports$134,191Health$69,000

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 budgetIMPACTASSETSINC — $663,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE WASHINGTON LATIN SCHOOL — $233,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Area Bicyclist Association — $131,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMOCO KIDSCO INC — $67,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetStreet Sense Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSEDALE CONSERVANCY INC — $7,250 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF COMPASS INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCASA MARIANELLA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDC PREP SUPPORT CORPORATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYALE RUGGERS INC — $2,600 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMOSAIC THEATER COMPANY OF DC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF VERITAS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDC CHARTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTregaron Conservancy — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC — $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLEY HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUPREME COURT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION — $591 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYBODY WINS DC INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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…The Morris and Gwendo…Galena-Yorktown Found…Weissberg FoundationClark-Winchcole Found…Verizon FoundationMax & Victoria Dreyfu…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…ImpactassetsincAmerican Online Givin…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC23.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 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 · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Weissberg Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Impactassetsinc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Graham Stretch Family 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 or a single department — 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Moco Kidsco Inc — 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report 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

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.

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 41 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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