Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL
FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,680,878 to it, the largest being EDUCATION FORWARD DC ($630,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $505k
What Federal City Council does
Mission
The mission of the Federal City Council is to focus the creativity, talent and resources of washington dc's business and civic leaders on washington, dc's biggest challenges and opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Federal City Council (fc2) was organized in 1954 for the purpose of enhancing washington, dc by serving as a catalyst for progress. The council focuses the creative and administrative talents of the district's business and professional leaders on solving the major problems facing metropolitan dc. Serving as a catalyst for progress, the fc2 focuses the talents of its trusteesmany of washington, d.c.'s most respected business and professional leaderson major initiatives and civic projects to enhance the vitality and resiliency of the nation's capital. Working collaboratively with public and private sector institutions, the fc2 delivers innovative, achievable solutions to deeply embedded challenges.areas of focus include transportation and infrastructure, economy, education and public private partnerships.transportation and infrastructure - advancing metro and transit innovations. D.c. Needs a functional, reliable transportation system and improving metro is critical in achieving this goal. In an effort to rebuild the infrastructure, metro will embrace innovation and competition to improve its customer experience. Therefore, city and regional leaders must put aside traditional,…
$2,630,880 spent$39,625 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,630,880.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $2.7M to $2.0M (−27%).
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: 2023 5% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Marty Rodgers
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $54k → $394k.
4 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $249k from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The 2030 Group Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL’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
FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 26% · 2019 49% · 2020 57% · 2021 36% · 2022 49% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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
37% of FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $139k 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.
Organizations like FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Infrastructuredc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL: 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 FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL?
- FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,680,878 to it, the largest being EDUCATION FORWARD DC ($630,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,680,878 in grants to FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL?
- EDUCATION FORWARD DC is the largest funder on record, with $630,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 30 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