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United Planning Organization

UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION's mission is uniting people with opportunities.

$578k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$195k
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$7.8MHuman Services$4.6MHealth$2.2MEmployment$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.3MCrime & Legal$711kReligion$645kCommunity Improvement$19k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $534,157 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $578,103 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,946 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $487k
$146,607
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPANISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT$194,656
EMERGENT PREPARATORY ACADEMY$146,607
HEALTHY BABIES PROJECT INC$145,642
JEWEL'S NEW BEGINNING LEARNING CENTER LLC$47,252
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 (FY17–22, $7.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $385k → 8%BOARD OF CHILD CARE: $165k → 11%THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (NCCF): $61k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $29k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $1.7M → 14%EDUCARE DC: $1.6M → 14%EDUCARE DC: $1.6M → 14%EDUCARE DC: $854k → 14%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $76k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - REFUGEE SERVICE CENTER: $42k → 14%YWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $27k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - REFUGEE SERVICE CENTER: $9k → 14%EDGEWOODBROOKLAND FAMILY SUPPORT: $192k → 14%EDGEWOODBROOKLAND FAMILY SUPPORT: $173k → 14%EDGEWOODBROOKLAND FAMILY SUPPORT: $117k → 14%EDGEWOODBROOKLAND FAMILY SUPPORT: $97k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC: $80k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC: $78k → 14%EDGEWOODBROOKLAND FAMILY SUPPORT: $74k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC: $50k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC: $48k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC: $20k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $100k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $100k → 14%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC: $69k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON: $61k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 13 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
28

Total granted

$16M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+37%

Still filing today

92%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

  • ED
    EDUCARE DC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $5.7M · revenue +251% · 32% of their budget
  • VS
    VIDA SENIOR CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.9M · revenue +61% · 39% of their budget
  • SE
    SPANISH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $385k · revenue +8%
  • BE
    BEHAVIORAL EDUCATIONAL SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2022 · $378k
  • SE
    SUNSHINE EARLY LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $270k

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
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
2
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
3
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
4
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
5
Dc Community Development Consortium Institute
Community Improvement
6
Casa for Children of the District of Columbia

Court appointed special advocates of DC (CASA DC) promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy so that every abused and neglected child in the DC foster care or juvenile justice system can be safe, establish permanence and have the…

Human Services
7
The Non-Profit Community Developmen Corporation of Dc

Npcdc's mission is to initate, sponsor and operate housing and economic development projects that create economic stability and upward mobility for low-income families in metropolitan washington, dc.

Housing & Shelter
8
Jhp Inc

To help people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless seek, obtain, and retain employment and secure housing.

Employment
9
Downtown Cluster of Congregations Inc

Dcc is for the purpose of strengthening the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and communities in the greater washington, dc area. dcc is a full-time, bilingual social service organization that provides comprehensive…

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10
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
11
Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter School

The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…

Education
12
Foster & Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center

Empower and advocate for families and youth involved in the child welfare system, to promote the long-term stability of families in the nation's capital.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Children and Families and the most unlike its peers is Healthy Babies Project Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr16%43%35–55yr15%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%36%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr16%39%35–55yr15%13%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,960

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

29 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. 29 of the 43 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)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EDUCARE DC — $5,740,244 · Human ServicesEDUCARE DCEdgewoodBrookland Family Support Collaborative — $653,320 · Human ServicesEdgewoodBrookland Family Support Collaborativ…NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $384,678 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON — $327,321 · Human Services+8 more — $687,152 · Human Services+8 moreVIDA SENIOR CENTER INC — $1,930,396 · OtherVIDA SENIOR CENTER INCSPANISH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $1,196,654 · OtherSPANISH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTERTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,087,590 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCCHRISTIAN TABERNACLE — $658,336 · OtherCHRISTIAN TABERNACLEBEHAVIORAL EDUCATIONAL SOLUTIONS — $378,320 · OtherBEHAVIORAL EDUCATIONAL SOLUTIONSSUNSHINE EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $269,948 · OtherLOVING CARE DAY NURSERY INC — $243,470 · Other+13 more — $984,852 · Other+13 moreHEALTHY BABIES PROJECT INC — $1,001,286 · HealthUNITY HEALTH CARE INC — $219,636 · HealthCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO — $1,038,455 · Community ImprovementTHRIVE DC — $1,008,568 · Food & NutritionAPPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $595,083 · EducationCOMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP — $108,335 · Education+1 more — $18,750 · EducationCOLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES — $710,740 · Crime & LegalWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC — $161,700 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF RUTH — $52,951 · Housing & ShelterDISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC — $11,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$7,792,715Other$6,749,566Health$1,220,922Community Improvement$1,038,455Food & Nutrition$1,008,568Education$722,168Crime & Legal$710,740Housing & Shelter$225,651

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 budgetEDUCARE DC — $5,740,244 over 4y, 32% of budgetVIDA SENIOR CENTER INC — $1,930,396 over 5y, 39% of budgetSPANISH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $1,196,654 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,087,590 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO — $1,038,455 over 5y, 43% of budgetTHRIVE DC — $1,008,568 over 5y, 14% of budgetHEALTHY BABIES PROJECT INC — $1,001,286 over 7y, 15% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES — $710,740 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetEdgewoodBrookland Family Support Collaborative — $653,320 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetAPPLETREE EARLY LEARNING PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $595,083 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $384,678 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON — $327,321 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITY HEALTH CARE INC — $219,636 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $200,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBOARD OF CHILD CARE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC — $164,993 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWANDA ALSTON FOUNDATION INC — $161,700 over 1y, 25% of budgetCOMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP — $108,335 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJubilee Jumpstart — $79,669 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCommunity Connections Inc — $75,814 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLT JOSEPH P KENNEDY INSTITUTE — $74,700 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC — $68,628 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $61,245 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC — $61,081 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH — $52,951 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMULTICULTURAL CAREER INTERN PROGRAM — $37,460 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN — $28,656 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA — $26,735 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $18,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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…Low Income Investment…United Way of the Nat…The Morris and Gwendo…Greater DC Diaper BankRichard E & Nancy P M…Mgm Resorts FoundationLainoff Family Founda…Association of Americ…World Bank Community …Dimick Foundation Joh…Clark Charitable Foun…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC34.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Low Income Investment Fund · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater DC Diaper Bank · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Lainoff Family Foundation Inc · Association of American Medical Colleges · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark 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 United Planning Organization 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 · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church Inc — 100% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
  • National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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