How much did WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

Human Services$929kYouth Development$474kHealth$352kCommunity Improvement$290kEducation$245kCivil Rights$195kHousing & Shelter$175kCrime & Legal$80kPhilanthropy$79kOther$1.1M

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

young low-incomelow-income girlshigh-quality childfiscaltheaterhealthadvocate

2020

domestic violenceviolence sexualsexual assaultsocialhistoricallyfiscalsurvivors domestic

2021

stand togethercharteradultsbright beginningsviolence preventionnonprofitsmontgomery

2022

kidsmsspanonprofitsdomestic violenceviolence sexualsexual assaultstrengthen

2023

childhood educationeducation advocacyadvocacy professionalearly childhood

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k12 grants · $330k
$50k–250k3 grants · $226k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$958k

Total assets

Largest grants

BLACK SWAN ACADEMY$126,000
CHILD RESOURCE CONNECT$50,000
SPACES IN ACTION (FISCALLY SPONSORED BY FUSION PARTNERSHIP)$50,000
DC ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN$40,000
THE MULTICULTURAL SPANISH SPEAKING PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION$40,000
COMMUNITY YOUTH ADVANCE$40,000
DC ACTION$40,000
DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE$30,000
DC FAMILY CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION$25,000
MARYLAND STATE FAMILY CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
NONPROFIT MONTGOMERY - ANA$20,000
VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN$20,000
NORTHERN VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN$20,000
THE PERSON CENTER$15,000
MAMATOTO VILLAGE$15,000

02The need

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 (FY18–23, $909k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 95% 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.3M · 27 repeat orgs$602k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.3M

$532k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+36%

Still filing today

96%

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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

THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $419k · revenue +253%
PG
PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CTR INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $366k · revenue +63%
WE
WONDERS EARLY LEARNING AND EXTENDED DAY INC
4× · 2018–2021 · $275k · revenue +18%

Funded once

D
DCPCAgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +32%
IT
INFANT TOODLER FAMILY DAY CARE
one grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue -11%
GW
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $44k · revenue +3%

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.

Educare Dc

To eliminate the opportunity gap with high-quality early learning for children prenatal to age 5.

Human Services

Dc Policy Center

The d.c. policy center is a non-partisan, independent think tank focused on advancing policies for a vibrant and growing economy in the district of columbia. the d.c. policy center provides objective, targeted, and high-quality data…

Public Benefit

Council for Court Excellence

Bring people together to research, educate, & advocate for a fair, equitable dc legal system.

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Dc Preparatory Academy

Dc prep is a network of public charter schools serving pk3-8th grade students in washington, dc.

Education

The Dc Central Kitchen Inc

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Out & Equal

Social Science

Drew Child Development Corporation

Preparing the children of watts-willowbrook, compton, and south los angeles to succeed and thereby strengthen our community's future

Human Services

Dc Greens Inc

DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.

Community Improvement

Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International

Washington Yu Ying Public Charter

To operate a public charter school in a chinese/english dual language immersion environment.

Education

District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal

Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties

To build long-lasting conflict solutions between to people and groups across Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dc Rape Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 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%0/56

the rest of the field

12%

4,266/35,402

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.

05the grantee network

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/54

Grantees still filing

44/54

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,457,405Human Services$929,251Youth Development$473,800Health$351,513Community Improvement$290,000Education$244,513Civil Rights$195,000

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC54.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Mgm Resorts Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern · Corina Higginson Trust · If Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Crimsonbridge Foundation Inc · Weissberg 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 organisation WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get 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: MSFCCA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521579040 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 MSFCCA, 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 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% 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 Women's Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Washington Area Women's Foundation 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.

WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Washington Area Women's Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Washington Area Women's Foundation?

More from the funding graph