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Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (Washington, D.C.) is funded by 14 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $10,336,986 in grants to it, the largest being THE ELLINGTON FUND INC ($8,637,504). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS has grown faster than half of the 2,198 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,198 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
97% of DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (26% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
The base broadened — 2 funders to 5 as grant income moved $11k → $1.6M.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 97% · 2019 95% · 2020 50% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 79% · 2024 98% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
55% of DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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.
DUKE ELLINGTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is locally rooted: 84% of its grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 14 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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
77% of spending goes to programs.
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 14funders 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. view filing