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United Planning Organization

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

$720k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$273k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.8MHuman Services$4.6MHealth$2.2MEmployment$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.3MCrime & Legal$711kReligion$645kCommunity Improvement$19k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $674,243, the rows itemized in this filing. The $719,715 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,472 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–50k1 grant · $33k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $369k
  • $250k+1 grant · $273k
$101,760
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPANISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CTR EHS$272,800
JEWEL'S NEW BEGINNING LEARNING CENTER LLC$132,749
NEWLEN EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL REDINESS$101,760
ST PHILIP'S CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$78,614
NEWLEN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES$55,680
CRYSTAL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC$32,640
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.9M) 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 its 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%ST PHILIP'S CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $79k → 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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 14 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
29

Total granted

$17M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+37%

Still filing today

86%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • 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
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · 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
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
United Planning Organization

United planning organization's mission is uniting people with opportunities.

Human Services
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Dc Community Development Consortium Institute
Community Improvement
6
North Capitol Collaborative Inc

The mission is to protect and care for children, strengthen families and build thriving communities. the development of partnerships that concentrate on family support networks and neighborhood capacity building to prevent the removal of…

Human Services
7
Community Connections Inc

Our mission is to provide behavioral health, residential services, and primary health care coordination for marginalized and disenfranchised women, men, youth, and children living in the district of columbia, many of whom are coping with…

Health
8
The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness

To serve as a focal point for efforts to reduce and ultimately end homelessness in the district of columbia.

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9
Briya Public Charter School

Briya pcs is a public charter school and is operating under a contract with the dc government through the dc public charter school board, providing high quality education for adults and children that empowers families through a culturally…

Education
10
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
11
Abilities Network Inc

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

Health
12
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Children and Families; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 47 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDUCARE DC: $5,740,244 · Human ServicesEDUCARE DCEdgewoodBrookland Family Support Collaborative: $653,320 · Human ServicesEdgewoodBrookland Family Support Collaborati…NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $384,678 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $327,321 · Human Services+9 more: $765,766 · Human Services+9 moreVIDA SENIOR CENTER INC: $1,930,396 · OtherVIDA SENIOR CENTER INCSPANISH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,469,454 · 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 · OtherSUNSHINE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $269,948 · Other+17 more: $1,551,151 · Other+17 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$7,871,329Other$7,345,195Health$1,220,922Community Improvement$1,038,455Food & Nutrition$1,008,568Education$722,168Crime & Legal$710,740Housing & Shelter$225,651

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 budgetEDUCARE DC: $5,740,244 over 4y, 32% of budgetVIDA SENIOR CENTER INC: $1,930,396 over 5y, 39% of budgetSPANISH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,469,454 over 8y, 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
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…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

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 United Planning Organization funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Planning Organization. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
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.

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 47 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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