Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc
Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,640 to it, the largest being ARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($172,442). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $474k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $415k
- Net assets
- $0
What Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc does
Mission
The mission of Do The Write Thing of DC is to use a whole-child approach to promote the long-term development and success of children and youth across multiple developmental domains using literary and multi-media arts activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
DTWT involved Ballou High School students in after-school Social Emotional Learning SEL workshops poetry writing publishing a book of poetry participating in a school-based and city-wide poetry festival and The Teen New Deal.
$225,000 spent$225,000 earned by the program52% of program spendingDuring the summer 2025 DTWT offered the Summer Youth Employment Program through which high school students wrote poetry published a book of poetry participated in social-emotional learning work readiness workshops and produced a Town Hall that featured local leaders describing methods to address high crime rates poor housing and education for Blacks. Elementary students were engaged in a summer program that taught robotics kiddie entrepreneurship GeoAg growing vegetables in rocks and Living Storybook children creating books based on stories written by LoLo Smith.
$87,500 spent$87,500 earned by the program20% of program spendingDTWT engaged high school students in a violence prevention program through which they learned techniques and strategies to address situations that could become violent.
$118,568 spent$118,568 earned by the program28% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $431,068.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $138k to $444k (+221%).
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: 2020 79% · 2021 82% · 2022 83% · 2023 99% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $198k → $30.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc’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
Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 54% · 2019 48% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
67% of Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc'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. $157k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc's revenue grew 23% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc: 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 Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc?
- Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,640 to it, the largest being ARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($172,442). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $414,640 in grants to Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc?
- ARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $172,442 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Do the Write Thing Foundation of Dc 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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