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Washington Center for Equitable Growth Inc

The washington center for equitable growth is a non-profit research and grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth.

$907k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.6MEmployment$1.6MScience & Tech$900kSocial Science$852kHealth$418kCommunity Improvement$250kRecreation & Sports$160kHuman Services$108kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $750,680, the rows itemized in this filing. The $907,319 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $156,639 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $556k
$30,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$97,200
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON$80,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$80,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$79,200
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$77,520
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK$75,260
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$66,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$30,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$30,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$30,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK$15,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $85k → 7%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $70k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST: $75k → 12%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $75k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $90k → 11%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $78k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (BERKELEY): $80k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $85k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $70k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $80k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS: $74k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $70k → 11%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $85k → 15%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 15%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $80k → 6%THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $136k → 8%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $76k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $75k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $80k → 19%THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $80k → 8%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $70k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $80k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UC BERKELEY): $68k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $80k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $90k → 17%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $70k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $72k → 11%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $74k → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $75k → 19%THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $86k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $75k → 11%THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $76k → 8%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $75k → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UCLA): $70k → 14%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $82k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $80k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $85k → 14%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $80k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $79k → 14%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $80k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $77k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $76k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $97k → 8%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $75k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $75k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $69k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Washington Center for Equitable Growth Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Washington Center for Equitable Growth Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 24 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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26

Total granted

$4.6M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+33%

Still filing today

33%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $324k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationSocial ScienceRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • University of Chicago
    7× · 2017–2024 · $696k · revenue +56%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +51%
  • Cornell University
    3× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $85k · revenue +24%
  • PS
    PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +11%
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.

04Its field

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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University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
9
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
10
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
11
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

40 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. 40 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
37/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Chicago: $695,513 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $609,535 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKDUKE UNIVERSITY: $339,657 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $321,600 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $308,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSIT…Cornell University: $240,000 · EducationCornell UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $231,510 · EducationYale University: $215,000 · EducationNew York University: $150,000 · Education+25 more: $1,376,986 · Education+25 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $396,422 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKE…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $313,348 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $263,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $260,260 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $221,324 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $204,806 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTATHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $181,018 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $150,753 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $140,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $124,860 · Other+21 more: $1,319,464 · Other+21 moreNorthwestern University: $160,000 · Recreation & SportsBROWN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Social Science
Education$4,487,801Other$3,575,255Recreation & Sports$160,000Community Improvement$40,000Social Science$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago: $695,513 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $609,535 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $339,657 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $321,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $308,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $240,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $231,510 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $215,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $107,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $93,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $77,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $67,273 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $67,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $65,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $61,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $58,110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $34,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $32,065 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Washington Center for Equitable Growth Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Center for Equitable Growth Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home