Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC
CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,335 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,133). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $603k
What Civic Leadership Project Inc does
Mission
The mission of the Civic Leadership Project is to improve the capacity of communities, and especially their nonprofit organizations, to address the major social and economic challenges we face.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
DC Tutoring & Mentoring Initiative: The goal of DCTMI is to create a public campaign to get a volunteer tutor or mentor for the 2 out of 3 DC students reading below grade level (60,000+ students) or with other academic or non-academic needs -- but also to do something even bigger: Show that a community can work together around a shared civic and moral vision. We recruit and place volunteers with 50 partner tutoring and mentoring organizations and schools. The foundation for our work has been through volunteer canvassing at farmers markets and other public events and spaces. We also do outreach to religious congregations and employers, and use social media, virtual and in-person volunteer fairs and other approaches. We measure our results both in terms of short-term recruitment and long-term change in our civic culture. In 2024, more than 6,000 people signed up to volunteer or asked us to provide them with 2 or 3 concrete choices where they could volunteer based on when and where they were available.
$603,426 spent52% of program spendingThe Community Platform is a web-based and mobile-friendly application hosted by our nonprofit or university partner organizations. The goal is to provide locally-customable sites that permit nonprofits, funders, students and community members to map and understand where services are being delivered in relationship to community needs, share information and resources, and encourage people and businesses to become more involved as volunteers and donors. We continued to support four Community Platform sites in 2024.
$122,756 spent$1,400 earned by the program11% of program spendingForm 990 Online is a web-based system that permits nonprofit organizations and their preparers to create their IRS Form 990s online and either electronically file their return with the IRS or print them and mail them in. In 2024, the system was used by nearly 44,500 organizations and is completely free for 52% of them -- those organizations that reported less than $100,000 in revenue. In addition, we support state charity registrations in collaboration with the states of Hawaii, New York, and Michigan.
$404,783 spent$1,157,100 earned by the program35% of program spendingWe continued development of our CivLead app, our Fitbit for Civic Change. The goal is to create a civic culture that promotes both community service (1-2 hours/week) and self-care (an hour a day is our target). By doing that, we believe we can expand the civic capacity of communities to tackle our major challenges, whether its helping low-income students or something else.
$35,884 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,166,849.
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 2021 to 2022, from $355k to $658k (+85%).
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.
0% of CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Thomas H Pollak
President, Secretary and Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $85 → $26.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT 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
CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 94% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT 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 $166 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. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC?
- CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,335 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,133). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,335 in grants to CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,133 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIVIC LEADERSHIP PROJECT 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing