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Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) is funded by 16 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $3,232,138 in grants to it, the largest being DIANA DAVIS SPENCER FOUNDATION INC ($3,003,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 11,390 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,390 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
100% of BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (49% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
The base broadened — 2 funders to 5 as grant income moved $7k → $421k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. Association, not causation.
BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 78% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 92% · 2024 98% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
44% of BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
BEST FRIENDS FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C. — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 16funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing