· Public charity
World Bank Community Connections Fund
To provide the world bank group employees and retirees with an opportunity to support nonprofit organizations that work to improve the quality of life of people and communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $200,000 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE | $100,000 |
| LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES | $100,000 |
| ARLINGTON FOOD ASSISTANCE CENTER | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of World Bank Community Connections Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 53% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
223 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 220 since wound down; 1 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2017–2020 · $1.5M · revenue +98%- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR TRANSPARENCY FUND INC3× · 2017–2019 · $911k · revenue +52% · 63% of their budget
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC6× · 2017–2025 · $910k · revenue +80%
Funded once
FAIR CHANCEone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +8%- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER OF WASHINGTON DCone grant, 2017 · $20k
- WAWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +66%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dunstan Wai Memorial Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
251 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 251 of the 266 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR TRANSPARENCY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds INDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW FUTURES ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Islamic American Zakat Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds Dunstan Wai Memorial Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FUND OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE DC ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Housing & Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Arlington Food Assistance Center ↗
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: United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · America's Charities
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 World Bank Community Connections Fund 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.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Adventist Development & Relief Agency International — 35% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — 6% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Social Service Agency — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.
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