· Public charity
Washington Area Women's Foundation
To invest in the power of women and girls of color in the washington, dc area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $461,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $483,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,500 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
- $10k–50k16 grants · $355k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK SWAN ACADEMY | $106,500 |
| DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT | $40,000 |
| DC FAMILY CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHANGE | $30,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHILDREN'S OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE INC | $30,000 |
| THE MULTICULTURAL SPANISH SPEAKING PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| EDUCARE DC | $20,000 |
| MARYLAND STATE FAMILY CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| MARYLAND EARLY CHILDHOOD LEADERSHIP PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| WOMEN PALANTE | $15,000 |
| THE TRARON CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY | $10,000 |
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, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $605k · revenue +91%- PGPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC9× · 2017–2025 · $476k · revenue +66%
- WEWONDERS EARLY LEARNING EXTENDED DAY4× · 2018–2021 · $275k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- DODISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue -17%
- CACAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue +8%
- NVNORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +17%
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.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…
The district of columbia college access program's (dc cap's) primary purpose is to encourage and enable district of columbia students to attend and graduate college.
The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…
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. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Court appointed special advocates of DC (CASA DC) promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy so that every abused and neglected child in the DC foster care or juvenile justice system can be safe, establish permanence and have the…
Empower and advocate for families and youth involved in the child welfare system, to promote the long-term stability of families in the nation's capital.
Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
Our mission is to promote the ideas wellbeing and retention of DCs educators amplifying their solutions to create a more just and equitable education system for all DC students and families.
Advocate for and support abused and neglected children to ensure their right to safe, stable and permanent homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca National Capital Area and the most unlike its peers is The Person Center 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 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 83 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
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 THE BLACK SWAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds WONDERS EARLY LEARNING EXTENDED DAY ↗
- Who funds DC RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN (DCAEYC) ↗
- Who funds Multicultural Spanish Speaking Providers ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds DC FAMILY CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND STATE FAMILY CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH ADVANCE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Montgomery County Childrens Opportunity Alliance ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INFANT TODDLER FAMILY DAYCARE OF NORTHERN VA INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT MONTGOMERY INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project ↗
- Who funds PRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF HOPE ADULT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds Communication Service For The Deaf Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TAX AID INC ↗
- Who funds The Training Source Inc ↗
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · If Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Truist Foundation Inc · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Foley Hoag 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 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.
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- Community Advocates for Family and Youth — 23% of income from government
- Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 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.