Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES
COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,226,767 to it, the largest being UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION ($710,740). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Collaborative Solutions for Communities does
Mission
To be the leading solution-focused resource in building strong, sustainable families and communities through family support services, innovative training, community capacity building, economic development and social enterprise.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The district of columbia's department of human services family services administration terminated 'the family rehousing and stabilization program (frsp') contract # cw101626 in september 2025. The original budget was for $2,160,210 but the total income at year-end was $1,339,838.89 or 62% of the original projection. The program significantly contracted in the fourth quarter and was terminated at the end of the fiscal year by the district of columbia. The us office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention (ojjdp) sponsored children exposed to violence program originally budgeted at $278,597 program was terminated in 2024. Hence, csc had posted only $57,768 in total income for the year. This is 21% of the budgeted amount and the total amount was posted in the first quarter of the fiscal year.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Case management servicesthe largest division of work at the Collaborative Solutions for Communities (csc) is case management services, totaling $3,643,527 in expenses, with the largest grant in this area (47%) being the community based child well-being services, funded by the district of columbia's child and family services agency (cfsa). This program delivers community-based child welfare services focused on keeping children safely with their families through our healthy families/thriving communities collaborative. It ensures that children involved in the public child welfare system grow up in secure, permanent homes with the support of their families of origin. Each family undergoes comprehensive needs assessment ranging from case management, financial assistance, parenting education, and trauma-informed care to workforce development, family group conferencing (fgc), and truancy prevention support. For 30 years csc has been serving more than 150 families annually, preventing unnecessary entry into foster care, assisting families with gainful employment and financial stability.other essential programs under the family services division include the dhs rapid rehousing youth…
$3,643,527 spentof which $139,875 as grants50% of program spendingViolence intervention and prevention programthe second largest division of work at csc is the violence intervention and prevention program, totaling $3,484,841 in expenses. Within this division, the highest funded program is safe passage, safe blocks (spsb), which accounts for 92% of the expenses in this division. It is funded by the deputy mayor for public safety and justice (dmpsj) and the office of victim services and justice grants (ovsjg). Spsb enables csc to administer a youth safety program across dc's wards 1, 3, 4, 5, and 8 of the district of columbia. Csc provides monitoring and engagement services to pre-designated routes and metro stops in the wards during student commute hours, keeping students and the community safe. Success is achieved through conflict resolution, mediation services, and community relationship building. It enhances school attendance and reduces student aggression. Csc has been part of the spsb program for over five years. Twenty schools currently benefit from this program.the second major violence intervention and prevention program is the stop school violence program (stop), funded by the united states department of justice (usdoj). This program…
$3,484,841 spent48% of program spendingProgressive employment programthe third largest division at csc is our progressive employment program, totaling $106,820 in expenses. This program, funded by the united planning organization (upo), serves as a core workforce development initiative, supporting over 100 individuals each year in securing employment. The program goes beyond job placement by providing intensive case management to assist participants with job retention milestones at 30, 90, 180, 270, and 365 days, and by helping clients achieve educational, training, and financial goals. The program includes the "thinking for a change" curriculum, delivered through a three-week course held two to three times annually, which combines cognitive behavioral approaches and social skills development to support clients in adjusting to the workforce, managing relationships, and improving mental health, all critical factors in sustaining employment.
$106,820 spent1% of program spendingExpenses allocated for social work training.
$10,868 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,246,056.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.0M to $12M (+130%).
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: 2018 27% · 2019 18% · 2020 23% · 2021 36% · 2022 31% · 2023 68% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
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
Penelope Griffith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $211k → $3k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES’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
COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 77% · 2019 61% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
33% of COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
78% of COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES's revenue grew 88% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES?
- COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,226,767 to it, the largest being UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION ($710,740). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,226,767 in grants to COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES?
- UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION is the largest funder on record, with $710,740 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMMUNITIES 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 9 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