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CENTRAL UNION MISSION

CENTRAL UNION MISSION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,428,925 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,549,523). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$21M
Revenue FY2025
146
Funders on record
$8.4M
Grants received
$27M
Net assets
87/146 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

CENTRAL UNION MISSION's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 367 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($17M) Expenses 100 ($16M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2018 Revenue 99 ($17M) Expenses 105 ($17M) Net assets 94 ($12M)2019 Revenue 105 ($18M) Expenses 101 ($17M) Net assets 126 ($16M)2020 Revenue 100 ($17M) Expenses 95 ($16M) Net assets 136 ($18M)2021 Revenue 132 ($22M) Expenses 83 ($14M) Net assets 173 ($22M)2022 Revenue 99 ($17M) Expenses 84 ($14M) Net assets 187 ($24M)2023 Revenue 106 ($18M) Expenses 103 ($17M) Net assets 196 ($25M)2024 Revenue 123 ($21M) Expenses 122 ($20M) Net assets 204 ($26M)2025 Revenue 125 ($21M) Expenses 129 ($21M) Net assets 208 ($27M)
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Revenue (125)Expenses (129)Net assets (208)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of CENTRAL UNION MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 865 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$437k
17
$509k
18
$1.1M
19
$1.2M
20
$8.5M
21
$2.8M
22
$924k
23
$685k
24
$94k
25
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 67 funders, grant income rose $365k → $1.2M.

29 of 146 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)64% 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 CENTRAL UNION MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 146 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

CENTRAL UNION MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

78% 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 CENTRAL UNION MISSION.

18%
largest funder
34%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 32% · 2019 21% · 2020 13% · 2021 14% · 2022 22% · 2023 13%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

53% of CENTRAL UNION MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

64% of CENTRAL UNION MISSION'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 $3.0M that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 21 states.

NH
WA
MT
WI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 146 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.

Organizations like CENTRAL UNION MISSION

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 2%Fundraising 16%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

72%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 41 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
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CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
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AR
TN
NC
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DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Mission DC Landlord LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL UNION MISSION: 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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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 CENTRAL UNION MISSION?
CENTRAL UNION MISSION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 146 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,428,925 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,549,523). 87 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CENTRAL UNION MISSION have?
IRS filings report 146 organizations giving $8,428,925 in grants to CENTRAL UNION MISSION, 87 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL UNION MISSION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,549,523 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTRAL UNION MISSION 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 146funders 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