Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 126 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,322,983 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($37,850,000). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53M
- Funders on record
- 126
- Grants received
- $148M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Center for Community Change does
Mission
The mission of community change is to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Strengthen key capacities: supporting each of the organization's core strategies through key bodies of work: strategic communications, digital media, policy and advocacy, leadership development, social justice fellowships, and other forms of program support and development.
$11,097,871 spentof which $5,210,500 as grants33% of program spendingIncubate movement innovation: acting as a fiscal sponsor for emerging initiatives housed at community change. All of these projects align with community change's mission to improve material conditions, reduce inequity, and amplify the voices of vulnerable communities.
$10,802,507 spentof which $1,732,400 as grants$782,082 earned by the program32% of program spendingAdvance a governing agenda: generating big ideas to advance economic, racial, and immigrant justice and building power to implement them locally and nationally.
$8,341,890 spentof which $2,418,150 as grants24% of program spendingOther programs
$3,848,876 spentof which $1,165,360 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,091,144.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $20M to $54M (+177%).
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.
98% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Sherece West-Scantlebury
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $12M → $13M.
30 of 126 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Fund for the Center for Community Change). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 126 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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 42% · 2019 39% · 2020 42% · 2021 45% · 2022 41% · 2023 11% — diversifying over time.
“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
34% of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 366 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 366 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fund for the Center for Community Change · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: 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 CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE?
- CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 126 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,322,983 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($37,850,000). 64 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE have?
- IRS filings report 126 organizations giving $148,322,983 in grants to CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE, 64 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $37,850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE 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 126 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