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Washington Forrest Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$896k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MHealth$1.1MEducation$669kArts & Culture$657kYouth Development$477kEmployment$358kFood & Nutrition$353kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $695k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$64,000
ARLINGTON FOOD ASSISTANCE CENTER$50,000
BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE$40,200
CAPITAL CARING$40,000
SIGNATURE THEATRE INC$40,000
DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES$35,000
GIVING WORDS$32,500
AHC INC$32,500
HIGHLAND SCHOOL$32,500
MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$27,500
L'ARCHE GREATER WASHINGTON DC$27,500
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$26,500
TRURO ANGLICAN CHURCH$25,000
EDUCATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY$25,000
PHOENIX BIKES$25,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $33k → 6%MELWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $28k → 11%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $24k → 6%MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $25k → 11%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $15k → 6%MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $20k → 11%HIGHLAND SCHOOL: $13k → 6%MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $18k → 11%MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $17k → 11%MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $15k → 11%L'ARCHE GREATER WASHINGTON DC: $43k → 14%MELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $15k → 11%L'ARCHE GREATER WASHINGTON DC: $28k → 14%L'ARCHE GREATER WASHINGTON DC: $27k → 14%L'ARCHE GREATER WASHINGTON DC: $25k → 14%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%L'ARCHE GREATER WASHINGTON DC: $25k → 14%L'ARCHE GREATER WASHINGTON DC: $25k → 14%L'ARCHE GREATER WASHINGTON DC: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY RESIDENCES: $21k → 6%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%COMMUNITY RESIDENCES: $20k → 6%FENWICK FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%COMMUNITY RESIDENCES: $18k → 6%COMMUNITY RESIDENCES: $10k → 6%COMMUNITY RESIDENCES: $10k → 6%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $12k → 7%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $12k → 7%THE FENWICK FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%CAPITAL CARING: $40k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $40k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $35k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $35k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $30k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $28k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $25k → 6%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $43k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $28k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $28k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $25k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $25k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $25k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $25k → 7%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $15k → 7%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $12k → 7%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $11k → 7%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $10k → 7%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $10k → 7%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

NY
RI
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 100 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
21

Total granted

$7.2M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • AF
    Arlington Food Assistance Center
    7× · 2019–2025 · $260k · revenue +90%
  • CP
    Columbia Pike Partnership Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $221k · revenue +18%
  • BT
    BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $219k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • AP
    ARLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS - KENMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SO
    SPACE OF HER OWN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -11%
  • TS
    TRINITY SCHOOL OF EARLY LEARNING
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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.

1
Virginia Community Development Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
2
Restorative Arlington

Dedicated to bringing restorative justice practices to Arlington Countys legal system, schools, and the community.

Crime & Legal
3
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
4
Alexandria Chamber of Commerce

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…

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5
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
6
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

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.

Science & Tech
7
Rebuilding TogetherArlingtonFairfax Falls Church Inc

Organize housing rehabilitation projects to repair the homes of low-income homeowners.

Housing & Shelter
8
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Girls on the Run of Nova

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.

Youth Development
10
The Alexandria Hospital Foundation

Fundraising to support inova alexandria hospital, an acute care tax exempt hospital.

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11
Dc Greens Inc

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

Community Improvement
12
Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doorways for Women and Families Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/87
Grantees still filing
57/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $309,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $217,500 · OtherAHC INC: $209,000 · OtherARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $179,500 · OtherST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $175,500 · OtherPRS: $175,000 · OtherTRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS INC: $154,500 · OtherColumbia Pike Partnership Inc: $221,200 · OtherARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $236,510 · OtherARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONPHOENIX BIKES: $151,600 · Other+76 more: $2,254,854 · Other+76 moreCapital Hospice: $232,500 · Human ServicesCapital HospiceARLINGTON THRIVE: $212,500 · Human ServicesARLINGTON THRIVELARCHE Inc: $192,000 · Human ServicesLARCHE IncMELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $109,500 · Human ServicesMELWOOD HORTICUL…HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $96,713 · Human ServicesHIGHLAND SCHOOL …FENWICK FOUNDATION: $91,000 · Human ServicesFENWICK FOUNDATI…Community Residences INC: $79,430 · Human ServicesCommunity Reside…ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $53,000 · Human Services+7 more: $44,850 · Human ServicesBRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE: $219,200 · Housing & ShelterShelter House Inc: $153,625 · Housing & ShelterBU-GATA: $146,850 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $11,250 · Housing & ShelterARLINGTON RETIREMENT HOUSING CORPORATION INC: $157,000 · HealthINSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER: $113,213 · HealthThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $100,000 · HealthNATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY: $97,000 · HealthTHE HEART LEAF CENTER: $44,000 · Health+2 more: $5,500 · HealthEDUCATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY: $177,000 · Arts & CultureSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $111,500 · Arts & CultureSynetic Theater Inc: $58,500 · Arts & CultureJANE FRANKLIN DANCE: $48,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ARLINGTON: $39,000 · Arts & CultureEncore Stage and Studio Inc: $20,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureArlington Food Assistance Center: $260,000 · Food & NutritionLA COCINA VA: $144,500 · Food & NutritionEDU-FUTURO: $127,800 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $77,500 · EducationALEXANDRIA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $47,000 · EducationCOMPUTER CORE INC: $36,400 · EducationPOWHATAN SCHOOL INC: $25,500 · EducationSPACE OF HER OWN INC: $25,000 · EducationFairfax High School Athletic Booster Clu: $15,500 · Education+7 more: $39,110 · Education
Other$4,284,164Human Services$1,111,493Housing & Shelter$530,925Health$516,713Arts & Culture$459,500Food & Nutrition$404,500Education$393,810

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArlington Food Assistance Center: $260,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $236,510 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCapital Hospice: $232,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Pike Partnership Inc: $221,200 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetBRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE: $219,200 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $217,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetARLINGTON THRIVE: $212,500 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetLARCHE Inc: $192,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $179,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY: $177,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetARLINGTON RETIREMENT HOUSING CORPORATION INC: $157,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetTRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS INC: $154,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetShelter House Inc: $153,625 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPHOENIX BIKES: $151,600 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetBU-GATA: $146,850 over 7y, 11% of budgetLA COCINA VA: $144,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetSCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $142,500 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC: $136,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetEDU-FUTURO: $127,800 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetGIVING WORDS INC: $121,003 over 6y, 35% of budgetWESLEY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $115,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER: $113,213 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $111,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMELWOOD HORTICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER INC: $109,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetArlington Pediatric Center Inc: $107,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetThe Virginia Hospital Center Foundation: $100,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY: $97,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND SCHOOL INC: $96,713 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFENWICK FOUNDATION: $91,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetPathForward Inc: $89,100 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP CENTER OF ARLINGTON: $86,300 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity Residences INC: $79,430 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $77,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBonder and Amanda Johnson Community Development Corporation: $68,150 over 3y, 11% of budgetSHIRLINGTON EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $67,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetArlington Neighborhood Village: $64,950 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetGirl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSynetic Theater Inc: $58,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $53,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOWEN MCCAULEY DANCE INC: $51,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetReal Food for Kids: $50,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetJANE FRANKLIN DANCE: $48,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetALEXANDRIA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $47,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HEART LEAF CENTER: $44,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ARLINGTON: $39,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetACT FOR ALEXANDRIA: $38,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPUTER CORE INC: $36,400 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 13% 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 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 ↗

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.

Arlington Community F…The Community Foundat…Act for AlexandriaThe Morris and Gwendo…United Way of the Nat…Dominion Energy Chari…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…Venable Foundation IncGreater Washington Co…Reinsch Pierce Family…The Jv Schiro Zavela …
Arlington Community FoundationVA85× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Washington Forrest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Washington Forrest Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 73%
  • Melwood Horticultural Training Center Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Capital Hospice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 135 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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