Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC
BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,775 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAS ($44,761). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared funders
- Brian a McCarthy Foundation Incportfolio match
- William S Abell Foundation Incshared funders
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $108.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 57% · 2020 97% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
55% of BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $45k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
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.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared fundersDC · backs 85 organizations that share your funders
- Brian a McCarthy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William S Abell Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- Destination Tomorrow Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heritage of Pride Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Civic Works Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Nonprofit Advancementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- No Boundaries Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bunnies on the Bayou Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health Care Advocates International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leonard Litz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC
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.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC?
- BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,775 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAS ($44,761). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $98,775 in grants to BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAS is the largest funder on record, with $44,761 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROTHER HELP THYSELF INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 5funders 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. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing