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The Washington Home Inc

THE WASHINGTON HOME, INC., A NOT-FOR PROFIT 501 (C)(3) ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN 1888, PROVIDES FUNDING TO ENTITIES THAT PROVIDE INNOVATIVE, COMPASSIONATE, AND WELL-MANAGED PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ELDERLY AND/OR TERMINALLY ILL RESIDENTS IN THE WASHINGTON, DC METROPOLITAN AREA.

$4.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$425k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$8.6MHuman Services$6.0MEducation$3.8MFood & Nutrition$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.7MPhilanthropy$320kInternational$200kReligion$186kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.2M
$80,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
East River Family Strengthening Collaborative Inc$425,000
The Abraham and Laura Lisner Home for Aged Women$375,000
Iona Senior Services$350,246
Capital Area Food Bank$298,680
Christ House Inc$273,750
Washington Hospital Center dba MEDSTAR Washington HospitalCenter$260,000
Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation$250,000
Home Care Partners Inc$175,000
Food & Friends Inc$150,000
Unity Health Care Inc$150,000
SOME Inc$147,735
Northwest Neighbors Village$141,567
Capital Caring$136,372
Seabury Resources for Aging$125,000
Seabury Resources for Aging$125,000
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 (FY20–25, $6.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $208k → 14%Capital Hospice: $651k → 6%Capital Caring: $136k → 6%Capital Caring: $10k → 6%Miriam's Kitchen Inc: $100k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $75k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $50k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $50k → 14%East River Family Strengthening Collaborative Inc: $425k → 14%Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc: $45k → 14%East River Family Strengthening Collaborative: $200k → 14%EAST RIVER FAMILY STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 14%EAST RIVER FAMILY STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE: $76k → 14%EAST RIVER FAMILY STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE: $47k → 14%CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE: $10k → 14%EAST RIVER FAMILY STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $1.1M → 14%NORTHWEST NEIGHBORS VILLAGE: $455k → 14%Iona Senior Services: $350k → 14%Iona Senior Services: $302k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $231k → 14%PALISADES VILLAGE: $176k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $155k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $80k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $47k → 14%PALISADES VILLAGE: $27k → 14%IONA: $20k → 14%Iona Senior Services: $10k → 14%Plants and Blooms Reimagined: $25k → 14%Plants and Blooms ReImagined: $25k → 14%GEORGETOWN VILLAGE INC: $3k → 14%GEORGETOWN VILLAGE INC: $3k → 14%Northwest Neighbors Village: $142k → 14%Northwest Neighbors Village: $142k → 14%NORTHWEST NEIGHBORS VILLAGE: $65k → 14%Seabury Resources for Aging: $136k → 14%Seabury Resources for Aging: $125k → 14%Seabury Resources for Aging: $125k → 14%BROOKLAND SENIOR DAY CARE CENTER INC: $63k → 14%Brookland Senior Day Care Center Inc: $54k → 14%We Are Family Senior Outreach Network Inc: $50k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $20k → 14%FAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE: $44k → 14%Seabury Resources for Aging: $10k → 14%Far South East Family Strengthening Collaborative Inc: $40k → 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.

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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 38 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
19

Total granted

$21M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

89%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $519k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity 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

  • IS
    Iona Senior Services
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +25%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +30%
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • MW
    MEDSTART WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $208k
  • HU
    HelpAge USAInc
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • MC
    Mary's Center for Child & Maternal Health
    one grant, 2024 · $150k

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 Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…

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2
G Street Integrated Health

Our mission is to offer comprehensive, professional health care with respect and kindness to everyone in our community, including the most vulnerable.

Health
3
The Washington Home Inc
Health
4
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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5
District of Columbia Health Care Assoc

To promote the ability of each member to operate in a cohesive way, through the work of the Association, to develop, implement, educate and assure the delivery of quality care to long-term care consumers in a safe and secure environment.

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6
District of Columbia Hospital Association

To provide leadership in improving the health care system in the district of columbia; advocate for the interests of member hospitals as they support the interests of the community; and encourage health services research and education.

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7
Meals On Wheels of Central Marylandinc

Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…

Food & Nutrition
8
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
9
Usaging

Usaging represents & supports the national network of area agencies on aging & advocates for the title vi native american aging programs that help older adults & people with disabilities live with optimal health, well-being, independence &…

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10
Health Care for the Homeless Inc

Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.

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11
Everyone Home Dc

We support the holistic needs of individuals and families at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Housing is our starting point. Seeing people thrive is our finish line.

Human Services
12
Pathways to Housing Dc

Pathways to housing dc prevents and ends homelessness for persons living with serious psychiatric disabilities and other complex health challenges.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitman-Walker Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Plants and Blooms Reimagined. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr14%9%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr16%41%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%20%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr16%35%35–55yr15%21%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,945

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 66 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
28/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Capital Caring Health — $3,557,375 · HealthCapital Caring HealthWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION — $1,256,633 · HealthWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATIONSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,250,281 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONJOSEPH'S HOUSE INC — $482,500 · HealthJOSEPH'S HOUSE INCFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $410,000 · HealthHOME CARE PARTNERS INC — $368,700 · HealthUNITY HEALTH CARE INC — $325,270 · HealthTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC — $306,991 · Health+4 more — $234,000 · HealthIona Senior Services — $2,122,718 · Human ServicesIona Senior ServicesEAST RIVER FAMILY STRENGTHENING COLLOBORATIVE INC — $868,150 · Human ServicesEAST RIVER FAMILY STRENGTHENIN…NORTHWEST NEIGHBORS VILLAGE — $803,184 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST NEIGHBORS VILLAGECapital Hospice — $796,972 · Human ServicesCapital HospiceSeabury Resources for Aging — $750,550 · Human ServicesSeabury Resources for AgingMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $275,000 · Human Services+8 more — $562,277 · Human Services+8 moreThe George Washington University — $2,088,551 · EducationThe George Washing…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,013,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERS…The Wilderness Technology Alliance — $315,000 · EducationThe Wilderness Tec…THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $310,630 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERS…+1 more — $100,000 · EducationSOME INC — $445,470 · OtherSOME INCABRAHAM AND LAURA LISNER HOME FOR AGED WOMEN — $380,000 · OtherABRAHAM AND L…MEDSTART WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER — $208,000 · OtherMEDSTART WASH…HelpAge USAInc — $200,000 · OtherHelpAge USAIn…SMITH FARM LTD DBA SMITH CENTER FOR HEALING AND THE ARTS — $185,294 · OtherSMITH FARM LT…THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $180,000 · OtherTHE DC CENTRA…Mary's Center for Child & Maternal Health — $150,000 · OtherMary's Center…ZION BAPTIST CHURCH — $126,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc — $100,000 · OtherDC Greens Inc — $100,000 · Other+14 more — $595,640 · Other+14 moreCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $721,860 · Food & NutritionWe Care Inc — $151,500 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $125,000 · Food & NutritionTHRIVE DC — $125,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $77,500 · Food & NutritionChrist House — $548,300 · Housing & ShelterTERRIFIC Inc — $127,000 · Housing & ShelterFriendship Place — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterGOODS FOR GOOD — $102,500 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $67,500 · Philanthropy
Health$8,191,750Human Services$6,178,851Education$3,827,181Other$2,770,404Food & Nutrition$1,200,860Housing & Shelter$700,300Philanthropy$170,000

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 budgetIona Senior Services — $2,122,718 over 6y, 14% of budgetThe George Washington University — $2,088,551 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION — $1,256,633 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,250,281 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,013,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST RIVER FAMILY STRENGTHENING COLLOBORATIVE INC — $868,150 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHWEST NEIGHBORS VILLAGE — $803,184 over 4y, 40% of budgetCapital Hospice — $796,972 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSeabury Resources for Aging — $750,550 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $721,860 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChrist House — $548,300 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetJOSEPH'S HOUSE INC — $482,500 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetSOME INC — $445,470 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC — $410,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetABRAHAM AND LAURA LISNER HOME FOR AGED WOMEN — $380,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOME CARE PARTNERS INC — $368,700 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetUNITY HEALTH CARE INC — $325,270 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wilderness Technology Alliance — $315,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $310,630 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC — $306,991 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $275,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPalisades Village — $202,500 over 2y, 70% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $180,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWe Care Inc — $151,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetWHITMAN-WALKER FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTERRIFIC Inc — $127,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE DC — $125,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBROOKLAND SENIOR DAY CARE CENTER — $116,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetGOODS FOR GOOD — $102,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetDC Greens Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $77,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $67,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBYTE BACK — $64,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetVIDA SENIOR CENTER INC — $60,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANTS AND BLOOMS REIMAGINED — $50,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetWILLIAM WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS AND HEALING — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY SENIOR OUTREACH NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC — $44,550 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStoddard Baptist Home — $38,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFURNISHHOPEDC INC — $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Place — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREVENTION OF BLINDNESS SOCIETY OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON INC — $24,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $10,000 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…Philip L Graham Fund …United Way of the Nat…Ada L and Albert M Wi…John Edward Fowler Me…Walter a Bloedorn Fou…William S Abell Found…Clark-Winchcole Found…AARP FoundationAgua FundincCorina Higginson Trus…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC43.7× affinity22 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 · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Ada L and Albert M Wibel Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Walter a Bloedorn Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · AARP Foundation · Agua Fundinc · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee

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 Washington Home Inc 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 · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Capital Hospice — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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