Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES
COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,441,472 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($962,381). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Community Family Life Services does
Mission
Cfls provides high impact housing, women's reentry, employment, mentoring, and emergency services to homeless and low income persons monthly to create opportunities for their success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing - the organization provides transitional housing to homeless families, long-term housing to single persons and housing case management for persons living with hiv. Case managers help locate housing opportunities, job training, and medical help.
$1,313,762 spent43% of program spendingRe-entry - the organization provides release planning and supportive services to dc women as they are transitioning home from a period of incarceration back to the dc community. The organization offers reentry case management, emergency services, parenting support, employment services, women's wellness supports and workshops and linkages and advocacy with the various criminal justice systems that are impacting their lives.
$1,071,776 spent35% of program spendingCase management/domestic violence - cfls provides case management to individuals and families as they work to rebuild their lives. Cfls also provides one-on-one parenting supports, mentoring supports, and offers medical case management to those individuals living with an hiv diagnosis and need to be connected to services and care. Through cfls' mentoring program, volunteers provide a combination of individual and community-based mentoring to develop sustainable positive adult relationships as well as group enrichment activities for low income families. Cfls also supports women dealing with domestic violence.
$685,915 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,071,453.
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 $2.3M to $2.8M (+24%).
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 52% · 2018 65% · 2019 57% · 2020 66% · 2021 78% · 2022 80% · 2023 85% · 2024 91% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
Chief executive
Shena Mcfadden-Brimage
Executive director
Board chair
Gary Randolph
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $36k → $793k.
5 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 27 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
COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 46% · 2019 58% · 2020 58% · 2021 36% · 2022 24% · 2023 52% — 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
38% of COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES'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
60% of COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES'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. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES: 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 COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES?
- COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,441,472 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($962,381). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,441,472 in grants to COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $962,381 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY FAMILY LIFE SERVICES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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