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COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO

COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,077,920 to it, the largest being UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION ($1,038,455). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$221k
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$2.1M
Grants received
$111k
Net assets
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 69%

Against its field

COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO is better cushioned than half of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−31% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−15% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 ($840k) Expenses 100 ($821k) Net assets 100 ($504k)2018 Revenue 64 ($538k) Expenses 89 ($731k) Net assets 62 ($311k)2019 Revenue 87 ($729k) Expenses 92 ($756k) Net assets 56 ($285k)2020 Revenue 103 ($869k) Expenses 113 ($925k) Net assets 45 ($228k)2021 Revenue 77 ($649k) Expenses 71 ($584k) Net assets 58 ($293k)2022 Revenue 69 ($580k) Expenses 72 ($587k) Net assets 65 ($328k)2023 Revenue 66 ($553k) Expenses 64 ($527k) Net assets 70 ($355k)2024 Revenue 33 ($277k) Expenses 55 ($453k) Net assets 35 ($178k)2025 Revenue 26 ($221k) Expenses 35 ($288k) Net assets 22 ($111k)
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Revenue (26)Expenses (35)Net assets (22)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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 51% · 2019 38% · 2020 17% · 2021 27% · 2022 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,403 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
17
$193k
18
$26k
19
$56k
20
$65k
21
$8k
22
$27k
23
$176k
24
$68k
25
8.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $356k → $42k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)28% 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 SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO’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

COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO.

50%
largest funder
95%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 58% · 2019 52% · 2020 53% · 2021 63% · 2022 57% · 2023 64%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

44% of COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

73% of COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

VA
MD
DC

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

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18
19
20
21
22
23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $590k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 11 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.

Government funding COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $297k on record.

Federal$297k
grants $297kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$297k

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 COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO

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

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 22%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

VA
MD

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO: 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 SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO?
COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,077,920 to it, the largest being UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION ($1,038,455). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,077,920 in grants to COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO?
UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,038,455 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF THE METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON COUNCIL AFL-CIO 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 11funders 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