Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP
CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,508,088 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,350,788). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Capitol Hill Arts Workshop does
Mission
To build community through the arts, chaw envisions a place where the arts connect and transform people. The organization believes in: discovering individual potential; everyone can both learn and teach; everyone is valuable and deserves respect; the arts create a common ground; the arts challenge; and the arts must be accessible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Art instruction: provides instruction in visual arts, dance, ceramics, photography, and music for children and adults building confidence, creativity and community. Through its multidisciplinary arts programs taught by teaching artists with a passion to share their disciplines, chaw fosters a safe and nurturing environment for people of all ages, experiencing the artistic process, and expanding appreciation of the arts.
$894,171 spent$835,474 earned by the program54% of program spendingArts institute for creative advancement : the arts institute for creative advancement is an intensive education and apprenticeship program in technical theater to train young people who are disconnected from or under-engaged in school and work to enter dc's creative economy. Youth ages 18-24 are prepared for careers as offstage theater professionals whose roles include lighting and audio engineering, set construction, scenic painting, rigging, and stage management. This is a collective impact workforce development program in collaboration with 17 of the largest arts education organizations in dc. Chaw serves as a partner and manager for the program.
$709,645 spentof which $107,600 as grants43% of program spendingCommunity engagement: through workshops, exhibits, and performances, the organization provides innovate arts programming for the greater community.
$59,126 spent$168,395 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,662,942.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $457k to $1.1M (+139%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 9% · 2020 10% · 2021 32% · 2022 12% · 2023 18% · 2024 16% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Amy Moore
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $113k → $394k.
10 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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
CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 58% · 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 35% · 2022 25% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
41% of CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP'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 $884k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP?
- CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,508,088 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,350,788). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $2,508,088 in grants to CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,350,788 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPITOL HILL ARTS WORKSHOP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing