Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
CORE INC
CORE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,015,389 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($3,113,616). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Core Inc does
Mission
Core Inc. (doing business as (dba) core group) improves and expands community health practices for underserved populations, especially women, children, and adolescents through collaborative action and learning.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Maternal and child health:momentum: core group provided technical expertise on community engagement for increasing routine immunization in the ivory coast and provided technical expertise on haiti immunization. Core group and partners presented results from the photovoice research project on immunization at the core group kenya at the nairobi global health practitioners conference. This project ended in april 2025, after the dissolution of usaid. Small grants for scaled impact: core group concluded phase 1 of the three-year program of providing grants, capacity and technical expertise to six organizations in nepal, cambodia and bangladesh for improved health outcomes and disability-inclusive health for reproductive, maternal, child, adolescent and neonatal health. Projects saw increased knowledge in nutrition, increased breastfeeding, increased access to care, improved adolescent care, addressed needs of young mothers, and improved quality of rmncah services and access for women living with disabilities. Phase 2 of the project began in 2025 with the selection of four organizations in kenya and ethiopia to implement projects in immunization, prevention of child marriage, improving…
$1,097,933 spentof which $78,330 as grants47% of program spendingKnowledge management: agency for all: core group led engagement social and behavioral interventions at the regional level in east and west africa, as well as south asia. Core group worked with other partners to improve utilization of research to advance agency-related sbc interventions through locally led, equitable partnerships, as well as strengthening capacity and leadership of local actors to apply evidence around social behavioral change and health. Core group led communications and knowledge management, as well as website support. This project ended in april 2025, after the dissolution of usaid.
$261,853 spent11% of program spendingInfectious diseases: core group partners project: core group communications, website, and knowledge management support to the core group partners project. We also provided vital administrative and technical support to the core group partners project through the hiring of consultants, travel planning, technical workshops on human-centered design, communications, knowledge management, and promotion of the learning from the project. Core group hosted a global health security workshop at the core group nairobi global health practitioners conference.
$652,874 spent28% of program spendingCore group member services: core group hosted over 16 webinars, hosted the landmark global health practitioner conference in nairobi kenya, promoted members technical resources, conducted advocacy and communications for global health issues including maternal and child health, immunization, social and behavior change, ncds, disability inclusive health, nutrition and humanitarian approaches. Additionally, core group co-hosted with george washington university a technical roundtable on forced migration and health, and published recommendations. Three "pitch challenge" civil society winners in uganda, ethiopia and kenya received grants and technical assistance through core group for their technical innovations. Core group also held several in-person events for members to discuss the changing landscape of assistance and developing innovative mechanisms and partnerships.
$337,841 spent$126,949 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,350,501.
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 $1.6M to $3.5M (+121%).
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 79% · 2018 73% · 2019 61% · 2020 50% · 2021 35% · 2022 14% · 2023 37% · 2024 46% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of CORE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Lisa Hilmi
Executive director
Board chair
Kelly Saldana
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1.8M → $16.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CORE 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
CORE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 CORE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 35% · 2019 47% · 2020 38% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 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.
How long its funders stay
11% of CORE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
CORE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
CORE INC's revenue grew 21% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CORE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $400k on record.
- Agency for International Development$400k
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 CORE 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 CORE 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 CORE INC?
- CORE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,015,389 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($3,113,616). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORE INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $8,015,389 in grants to CORE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORE INC?
- MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,113,616 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORE 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.
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 12 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