Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION
DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AARP ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Downtown Business Improvement District Corporation does
Mission
To enhance the economic vitality of the members of the downtown bid area by providing additional safety and maintenance services, and other services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safety - the downtown dc safety program has made the downtown environment more inviting and increased both the level and the perception of safety on the downtown streets, through the following major focus areas: safety workers provided visible, reassuring presence on the streets with uniformed foot patrols, were radio-equipped, and placed a special emphasis on hospitality; improved police services, by downtown workers serving as additional "eyes and ears and by enhanced communication, ongoing coordination and support with and for all local law enforcement agencies. The program also improved order maintenance, and served as an effective crime deterrent, through visibility and consistent coverage; disseminated safety and security-related information, providing a forum to exchange information, and to increase the perception of safety on the downtown streets.
Maintenance - downtown maintenance teams provided sidewalk and curb cleaning, trash bagging, and removal of litter in all 110 blocks of the downtown bid, placing special emphasis on heavily traveled pedestrian areas, especially on aftermath of major events. The heavy maintenance crew utilized street cleaning equipment in the early morning hours, painted light poles, utility boxes and trash receptacles, and made minor repairs, on a daily schedule. Street-level graffiti and illegal posters were removed or painted over within 24 hours of report.
Homeless - dbid provide day services center for individual adults experiencing homeless to promote self-sufficiency, wellness, recovery and employment. The outreach team also connects individuals experiencing homelessness downtown with the downtown day services center to secure permanent housing. For the stakeholder, the bid address public space cleanliness and defects, law enforcement, homeless outreach efforts and building/lighting improvements to improve the streetscape and encourage orderliness. The bid contracts with sasha bruce youthwork to operate the youth drop-in center located at 925 g street, nw. Downtown is gathering place for young people experiencing homeless who are disinclined to seek out adult shelters or service centers.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $14M to $19M (+39%).
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: 2019 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 13% · 2022 19% · 2023 13% · 2024 3% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Gerren Price
President and CEO
Board chair
Michael Mccarthy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $922k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Downtowndc Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.6M on record.
- General Services Administration$22.6M
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 DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Downtown Bid Services Corporation · exempt
- Downtowndc Foundation · exempt
- DC Bid Council · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION: 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 DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION?
- DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being AARP ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION?
- AARP is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION 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 1 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