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· Public charity
WASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
To increase equity and economic opportunity by investing knowledge, social, and financial capital in low- and moderate-income washington area entrepreneurs.
$719k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
1
Communities
$622k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Community Improvement$4.9MArts & Culture$868kHuman Services$128kEducation$30kEmployment$20kYouth Development$8kOther$1.7M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
medicalout
2021
solutionscollateralbcicooperativesworkerslivingtogether
2022
consultingenrichmentchildrenchild learningearly learninghairbeauty
2023
childmarketintegrally functionsfunctions carryout wacifgroupcarry out
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $250k+1 grant · $622k
$621,716
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ANACOSTIA ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC$621,716
- YELEEN BEAUTY LLC$30,000
02The need
04
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 (FY21–23, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 7 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6574% since the first grant, against +154% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
61
Total granted
$6.5M
$1.1M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+6574%
+154%
Still filing today
29%
8%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- 1G1231-1235 GOOD HOPE ROAD INC3× · 2021–2023 · $4.9M · revenue -86% · 100% of their budget
- AEANACOSTIA ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $868k · revenue +6574% · 63% of their budget
- YBYELEEN BEAUTY LLC2× · 2022–2024 · $530k
Funded once
- TFTHE FRESH FOOD FACTORY MARKETone grant, 2023 · $110k
- RCROCHDALE CAPITAL CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $108k · revenue -59%
- TMTHE MAHOGANY BUSINESS GROUP DBA MAHOGANYBOOKSone grant, 2023 · $80k
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.
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Bdc Community Capital Corporation
Promoting community development by providing access to credit, capital, and financial services to minority-owned businesses and to businesses that impact low to moderate income employment opportunities throughout new england.
Community Improvement
2
Edc Loan Corporation
Provide loans to qualified businesses in the corporation's targeted area and the urban core.
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3
Cdcli Funding Corporation
Cdcli funding corp. offers residential loan products which assist first-time buyers in purchasing a home and existing homeowners with needed repairs & improvements.
Human Services
4
Washington Area Community Investment
To increase equity and economic opportunity by investing knowledge, social, and financial capital in low- and moderate-income washington area entrepreneurs.
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5
Dc Dreamcenter
To inspire individuals to dare to dream and help reach their potential, one person at a time.
Human Services
6
Waco Community Development Corporation
To achieve a brighter future for children, neighbors and communities by inspiring and cultivating healthy neighborhoods.
Community Improvement
7
Child Development Center Inc
The Child Development Center is a developmental day center designed to build the independence of exceptional children through high-quality early education and therapeutic services.
Education
8
Community Loan Fund of the Capital
Community development financial institution that links socially concerned investors with community needs by making affordable housing, community and economic development loans to nonprofit orgs, small businesses and low/moderate income…
Housing & Shelter
9
Washington Economic Development
Coordinate area economic development
Community Improvement
10
Waterbury Development Corporation
Long range planning for economic development
Community Improvement
11
Dynamic Community Development Corporation
Assist small business and residents
Community Improvement
12
Riverside Children's Center
To provide educationally oriented daycare service for infants through pre-k on a regular and full-time basis.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1231-1235 Good Hope Road Inc and the most unlike its peers is Commerce Department Child Development Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$4,910,274Other$1,674,953Arts & Culture$868,047Human Services$128,492Education$30,000Employment$20,000Youth Development$7,500
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.
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.
Low Income Investment FundCA25.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 2 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Low Income Investment Fund · Capital Impact Partners · Latino Economic Development Corporation · City First Enterprises Inc
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 organisation WASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY INVESTMENT 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: 1231-1235 GOOD HOPE ROAD INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~20 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 873806971 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on 1231-1235 GOOD HOPE ROAD INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Washington Area Community Investment?
Find your warmest path to Washington Area Community Investment through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines