Virginia · Private foundation
Washington Forrest Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $896k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $64,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 68 to 77
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Washington Forrest Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 59 | $880k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 69 | $1.1M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 77 | $1.2M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $1.1M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 75 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 68 | $962k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Food Assistance Center | $260,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Capital Hospice | $232,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Columbia Pike Partnership Inc | $221,200 | 7 | 9% |
| Bridges to Independence | $219,200 | 7 | 2% |
| Doorways for Women and Families Inc | $217,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Arlington Thrive | $212,500 | 7 | 4% |
| LARCHE Inc | $192,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Arlington Free Clinic Inc | $179,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Educational Theatre Company | $177,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Arlington Retirement Housing Corporation Inc | $157,000 | 7 | 8% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Washington Forrest Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Arlington Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Act for Alexandria · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation Inc · The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation
How this is measured
About Washington Forrest Foundation
- How much does Washington Forrest Foundation give?
- Washington Forrest Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $896,490 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 77 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Washington Forrest Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Health (14%).
- Who are Washington Forrest Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Arlington Food Assistance Center ($260k), Capital Hospice ($233k), Columbia Pike Partnership Inc ($221k).
- Does Washington Forrest Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Washington Forrest Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Washington Forrest Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arlington Community Foundation, The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc, Act for Alexandria.
- Where is Washington Forrest Foundation based?
- Washington Forrest Foundation is based in VA.
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