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Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers

Promotes increased effective and responsible philanthropy to improve the health and vitality of the region and all who live here.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,116,607
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,116,607
Organizations funded a year
8 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $462k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$1.1M0%
FY202316$737k38%
FY20228$277k25%
FY202113$520k23%
FY202012$790k17%
FY201917$910k47%
FY201811$836k27%
FY20179$619kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.0MCommunity Improvement$1.6MHuman Services$593kCrime & Legal$320kPhilanthropy$311kYouth Development$205kSocial Science$37kCivil Rights$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Break a Difference$1,466,607291%
Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc$917,90070%
La Clinica del Pueblo Inc$513,30061%
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc$458,10070%
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC Inc$395,00061%
SMYAL Inc$309,60055%
District of Columbia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc$290,00067%
Hips$284,20063%
Family and Medical Counseling Service Inc$255,00060%
Children's Research Institute$233,50020%
Inova Health System Foundation$90,00040%
Joseph's House Inc$80,00051%
Mamatoto Village Inc$57,00021%
US Helping US People Into Living Inc$50,00012%
Wanda Alston Foundation Inc$45,00022%
Community Family Life Services$45,00020%
Capital Experience Lab$37,0091n/a
Who Speaks for Me Project$30,00023%
Knonap$25,0001n/a
DC Abortion Fund$25,00011%
Georgetown University$22,50010%
Latin American Youth Center$20,00010%
Naasakle International LLC$20,0001n/a
Femly$20,0001n/a
Edward Charles Foundation$15,92410%
Keeping You Sweet$15,0001n/a
Opencollective Foundation$15,00010%
Zzitto LLC$15,0001n/a
Roots of Development Inc$14,00013%
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia$10,0001n/a
Ryze Manufacturing & Logistics LLC$10,0001n/a
The Black Swan Academy Inc$10,00012%
Medhaul Inc$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBreak a Difference: $1,466,607 over 2y, 91% of budgetWhitman-Walker Clinic Inc: $917,900 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLa Clinica del Pueblo Inc: $513,300 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $458,100 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington DC Inc: $395,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSMYAL Inc: $309,600 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetDistrict of Columbia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $290,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetHips: $284,200 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetFamily and Medical Counseling Service Inc: $255,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Research Institute: $233,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInova Health System Foundation: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJoseph's House Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMamatoto Village Inc: $57,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUS Helping US People Into Living Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWanda Alston Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCommunity Family Life Services: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWho Speaks for Me Project: $30,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetDC Abortion Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGeorgetown University: $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatin American Youth Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEdward Charles Foundation: $15,924 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpencollective Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRoots of Development Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Black Swan Academy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC28.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Association of American Medical Colleges · World Bank Community Connections Fund · If Foundation · AIDS United · The George Washington University · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Open Society Institute

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.

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About Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers

How much does Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers give?
Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers reported 1 grants totaling $1,116,607 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (49%), Community Improvement (26%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Break a Difference ($1.5M), Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc ($918k), La Clinica del Pueblo Inc ($513k).
Does Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Association of American Medical Colleges.
Where is Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers based?
Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers is based in DC.

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 34 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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