Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Friendship Place
Friendship Place (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,600,887 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($755,535). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 134
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Friendship Place does
Mission
Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness to attain stable housing and rebuild their lives. Friendship Place helped 5,443 and 5,430 people in the years ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, with comprehensive, wraparound services that included street outreach, drop-in, free medical and psychiatric services, job placement, case management, transitional shelter, rapid rehousing, homelessness prevention, permanent supportive housing, and specialized services for families, youth, and veterans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Veterans ServicesVeterans First: Provides short-term, intensive case management and rental assistance to help homeless veterans and their families get back into housing quickly and to prevent homelessness for veteran households at risk of eviction. The program targets extremely low-income households (less than 30% of the Area Median Income) and serves the District of Columbia and eight surrounding counties in Maryland and Virginia. During the year ended September 30, 2025, 4,549 households were served (encompassing 1,012 total family members) through all services; of those who exited the program during the year, 92% graduated to stable permanent housing.
$8,390,256 spent$8,297,136 earned by the program39% of program spendingPermanent Supportive Housing (PSH)Friendship Place is a leading DC provider of Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) for highly vulnerable, chronically homeless individuals and families. The PSH programs are based on a low-barrier, Housing First service model and include scattered-site apartments and an apartment building for 40 men. Case managers help participants transition directly from homelessness into housing, and then provide long-term support to address the full range of their needs and empower them to achieve personal goals for recovery, wellness, self-sufficiency, and integration into the community. During the year ended September 30, 2025, 76 PSH families and 72 PSH individuals were newly housed. PSH housing programs ended the fiscal year with a housing retention rate of 93%.
$6,084,369 spent$7,104,322 earned by the program29% of program spendingShort Term Family FacilityThe short-term family housing facility was opened in April 2020 as part of the District's efforts to end homelessness among families. With the capacity to serve up to 50 families at a time, The Brooks is designed to address the needs of resident families with wrap-around supportive services, clinical supports, child programming, and housing-solutions with a goal of moving families from shelter to stable housing within 90 days of entry. During the year ended September 30, 2025, 165 families were served (encompassing 538 total persons), and 88 households exited (53% to stable housing and 62% of families exited in less than 90 days).The Aston, a new Bridge Housing program, officially opened in November 2024 with capacity to serve over 100 individuals at a given time. Between November 2024 and September 30, 2025, 165 individuals were served at The Aston.
$4,131,853 spent$4,256,513 earned by the program19% of program spendingOutreach ServicesEmployment ServicesAimHire: Empowers homeless and at-risk adults to secure stable employment and housing, through individualized, person-centered, wraparound services. The program addresses the needs of people with significant barriers to employment and housing, such as criminal records, histories of substance abuse or mental illness, spotty work histories, and poor credit and rental records. During the year ended September 30, 2025, 108 people were placed into jobs, with an average starting wage of $20.46 per hour.Welcome CenterStreet Outreach: Friendship Place conducts Street Outreach to men and women experiencing homelessness in upper Northwest DC, with a special focus on the hardest-to-serve those who have been on the streets for an extended period of time, who have mental health and/or substance abuse issues, and who are disconnected from DC's continuum of care. During the year ended September 30, 2025, 71 individuals were served.Drop-in: Through Friendship Place's Welcome Center, visitors can help themselves to a cup of coffee, a meal, and free necessities such as toiletries, Metro passes, undergarments, and rain ponchos. Visitors can also use the phone or a…
$2,374,534 spent$689,360 earned by the program11% of program spendingVolunteer and Community EngagementFriendship Place actively solicits the support of volunteers. During the year ended September 30, 2025, more than 323 people provided volunteer service in every program and at every level of the organization. The community engagement program also involves community members in advocacy for positive solutions to homelessness at the Federal and DC levels and coordinates a speakers' bureau that offers educational presentations to community groups.
$281,458 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,262,470.
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. 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 $5.9M to $9.5M (+62%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of Friendship Place’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jean-Michel Giraud
President/CEO
Board chair
David Dirks
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $621k → $1.3M.
24 of 134 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Friendship Place’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 134 funders by total. 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
Friendship Place has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 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 Friendship Place.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 19% · 2019 15% · 2020 17% · 2021 18% · 2022 12% · 2023 14% — 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
47% of Friendship Place's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
Friendship Place draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
Friendship Place's funding base is broadening — from 23 funders to 63 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Friendship Place receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $74.0M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$71.7M
- Department of Labor$2.3M
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 Friendship Place
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friendship Place: 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 Friendship Place?
- Friendship Place (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,600,887 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($755,535). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friendship Place have?
- IRS filings report 134 organizations giving $8,600,887 in grants to Friendship Place, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friendship Place?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $755,535 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friendship Place 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 134 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing