Washington · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL
COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $863,668 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($437,103). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $354k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $864k
- Net assets
- $647k
What Community Lunch on Capitol Hill does
Mission
Community Lunch on Capitol Hill provides hot nutritious meals, clothing and other critical services to those enduring homelessness and economic hardship. Our meals are open to all in a welcoming and inclusive environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Community Lunch on Capitol Hill is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides hot nutritous meals, clothing and other critical services to those enduring homelessness and economic hardship. We serve monday through friday, coffee and breakfast 9:30am-10:30am, lunch 11:30am-1:00pm. Our meals are open to all in a welcoming and inclusive environment. No sign-in is ever required. We serve roughly 85,000 meals per year.
$466,695 spent$334,991 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $466,695.
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 2020 to 2021, from $538k to $818k (+52%).
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.
95% of COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Julian Oreilly
Interim executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $41k → $80k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 22 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 LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 45% · 2021 37% · 2022 51% · 2023 72% — 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
36% of COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
74% of COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL'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 $225k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $638k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,974 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL: 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 LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL?
- COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL (Washington) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $863,668 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($437,103). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $863,668 in grants to COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $437,103 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY LUNCH ON CAPITOL HILL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 22 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