Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DC KINCARE ALLIANCE
DC KINCARE ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,725,653 to it, the largest being THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION ($625,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $643k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $563k
What DC Kincare Alliance does
Mission
To provide high-quality, free legal advice, representation and education to relative caregivers raising at-risk dc children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Commenced project stay to assist parents from vulnerable communities to safety plan for their children to live with trusted caregivers in cases of family separation.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
DC Kincare Alliance staff and volunteer attorneys assisted more than 225 clients raising more than 350 vulnerable dc children in over 370 legal matters. Such assistance included representing caregivers in court proceedings to obtain custody of or adopt the children in their care, helping caregivers apply for benefits and services to raise the children,providing educational seminars to affected community memebrs, and generating changes to unjust laws and policies through impact litigation and advocacy. More than $11,895,000 of in-kind pro bono legal services were provided to DC Kincare Alliance clients through partnerships with law firms and corporate legal departments.
$605,427 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $605,427.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $292k to $739k (+153%).
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: 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of DC KINCARE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Marla Spindel
Executive director
Board chair
Donnequa Grantham
President and board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $10k → $372k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 DC KINCARE ALLIANCE’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
DC KINCARE ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 DC KINCARE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 60% · 2019 41% · 2020 40% · 2021 28% · 2022 55% · 2023 63% — 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
75% of DC KINCARE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
64% of DC KINCARE ALLIANCE'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. $284k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
DC KINCARE ALLIANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DC KINCARE ALLIANCE
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DC KINCARE ALLIANCE?
- DC KINCARE ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,725,653 to it, the largest being THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION ($625,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DC KINCARE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,725,653 in grants to DC KINCARE ALLIANCE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DC KINCARE ALLIANCE?
- THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $625,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DC KINCARE ALLIANCE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 19 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