· Private foundation
Washington Forrest Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $695k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $64,000 |
| ARLINGTON FOOD ASSISTANCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE | $40,200 |
| SIGNATURE THEATRE INC | $40,000 |
| CAPITAL CARING | $40,000 |
| DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES | $35,000 |
| AHC INC | $32,500 |
| GIVING WORDS | $32,500 |
| HIGHLAND SCHOOL | $32,500 |
| L'ARCHE GREATER WASHINGTON DC | $27,500 |
| MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $27,500 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $26,500 |
| INSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER | $25,000 |
| PHOENIX BIKES | $25,000 |
| BU-GATA | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
100 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 12 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- AFArlington Food Assistance Center7× · 2019–2025 · $260k · revenue +90%
- CPColumbia Pike Partnership Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $221k · revenue +18%
- BTBRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE7× · 2019–2025 · $219k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SOSPACE OF HER OWN INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -11%
- APARLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS - KENMORE MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BFBUSH-LAWSON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
Dedicated to bringing restorative justice practices to Arlington Countys legal system, schools, and the community.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
See Schedule O.Providing a forum for individuals, businesses and associations engaged in and concerned with the interest and welfare of the Alexandria area, formulating and advocating business positions on critical issues, representing its…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
Organize housing rehabilitation projects to repair the homes of low-income homeowners.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
Girls on the Run of Northern Virginia (GOTR NOVA) is a non-profit 501(c)3 Organization with a mission of inspiring girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Fundraising to support inova alexandria hospital, an acute care tax exempt hospital.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doorways for Women and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jane Franklin Dance. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 135 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 Arlington Food Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Capital Hospice ↗
- Who funds Columbia Pike Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON THRIVE ↗
- Who funds LARCHE Inc ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON RETIREMENT HOUSING CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Shelter House Inc ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX BIKES ↗
- Who funds BU-GATA ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA VA ↗
- Who funds SCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC ↗
- Who funds EDU-FUTURO ↗
- Who funds GIVING WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Arlington Pediatric Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FENWICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PathForward Inc ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP CENTER OF ARLINGTON ↗
- Who funds Community Residences INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Bonder and Amanda Johnson Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds SHIRLINGTON EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION CENTER 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: 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
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 Forrest 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc — 73% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 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.