· Private foundation
England 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of ENGLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $229k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $266k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER | $266,347 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC | $156,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,923 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $144,932 |
| SITAR ARTS CENTER | $133,250 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $131,000 |
| LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES | $127,000 |
| PROJECT CREATE | $125,000 |
| DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $107,152 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $106,756 |
| PEACE FOR DC | $106,730 |
| MULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM | $75,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH | $75,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $65,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 82% of England 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. Read by recipient address, 14% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 2% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +35% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
160 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 116 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- TDTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $738k · revenue +96%
- BBBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $690k · revenue +65%
- LALATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $540k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- AMAIPAC MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL OFFICEone grant, 2018 · $165k
- MVMOVEMENT VOTERS FUNDone grant, 2021 · $150k
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $126k · revenue -61%
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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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.
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To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tih This Is Health. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
158 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. 158 of the 354 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES ↗
- Who funds DC SCORES ↗
- Who funds TZEDEK DC INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FORWARD DC ↗
- Who funds The Barker Adoption Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE FOR DC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds VITAL TALK ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER 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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation · Humanities Council of Washington DC
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 England 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.
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc — 51% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington 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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