· Public charity
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
- $250k+2 grants · $680k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANACOSTIA ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC | $404,882 |
| 1231-1235 GOOD HOPE ROAD INC | $275,215 |
| BBAR | $125,000 |
| YELEEN BEAUTY LLC | $60,000 |
| SEED SPOT INC | $60,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- 1G1231-1235 GOOD HOPE ROAD INC4× · 2021–2025 · $5.2M · revenue -67% · 100% of their budget
- AEANACOSTIA ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +120% · 63% of their budget
- YBYELEEN BEAUTY LLC3× · 2022–2025 · $590k
Funded once
- TFTHE FRESH FOOD FACTORY MARKETone grant, 2023 · $110k
- RCROCHDALE CAPITAL CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $108k · revenue +10%
- TMTHE MAHOGANY BUSINESS GROUP DBA MAHOGANYBOOKSone grant, 2023 · $80k
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.
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.
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To provide economic development services including business recruitment, expansion, business financing, community and workforce development.
Supporting the need for economic development in the black community throgh education. additionally, promoting black business growth in the district of columbia through the facilitation of business opportunities.
To equitably provide capital and development assistance to increase economic opportunities by offering a wide range of flexible financial products and technical services through collaboration.
To promote social welfare and equity of underrepresented black and Latina women in the technology industry by alleviating the impact of discrimination and prejudice in lending and investment industries which prevent disadvantaged groups…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 70 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds 1231-1235 GOOD HOPE ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds ANACOSTIA ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHDALE CAPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SEED SPOT ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CHILD LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED COMMUNITY INCUBATOR INC ↗
- Who funds Commerce Department Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds MEDICI ROAD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Low Income Investment Fund · Capital Impact Partners · Latino Economic Development Corporation · City First Enterprises Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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