· Public charity
United Way of the National Capital Area
United way nca improves the lives of underserved individuals in the national capital area by focusing community resources on creating measurable and lasting impact.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 210 grants below total $6,640,443 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,537,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,897,157 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k91 grants · $646k
- $10k–50k91 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $515,285 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT (SOME) | $329,072 |
| BRITEPATHS INC | $295,423 |
| PRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $272,500 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE | $200,000 |
| SKILLSOURCE GROUP | $196,650 |
| LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER | $185,014 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC | $176,531 |
| LATINO ECONIMIC DEVELOPMENT | $150,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL | $127,500 |
| ARLINGTON FOOD ASSISTANCE CENTER | $119,565 |
| MT SINAI BAPTIST CHURCH | $118,500 |
| MANNA FOOD CENTER INC | $118,470 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY | $111,984 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $109,087 |
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 (FY17–25, $11.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
411 repeat relationships — 203 still active in FY2025, 208 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- SFSAMU FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +120% · 35% of their budget
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +80%
- SISOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- ABAMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIESone grant, 2017 · $408k · revenue +12%
- LCLeadership Council for Healthy Communitiesone grant, 2021 · $310k · revenue -13%
- CSCOLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +88%
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
560 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 560 of the 629 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 SAMU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds BRITEPATHS INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Arlington Food Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds THE SKILLSOURCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYMIND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Little Lights Urban Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ANIMALS RESCUE TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare League of Alexandria ↗
- Who funds STROKE COMEBACK CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds Alfred Street Baptist Church Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Venable Foundation Inc · Redskin Foundation Inc George Preston Marshall 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 Way of the National Capital Area 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.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- United Way of Delaware — 58% of income from government
- Laurel Advocacy & Referral Services Inc — 53% of income from government
- Friends of Patients at the Nih Inc — 26% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — 6% of income from government
- Everymind Inc — 4% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- United Way of West Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
- The Arc of Prince George's County Inc — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families — 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.