Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GATHER INC
GATHER INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,978,098 to it, the largest being THE MORNINGSTAR PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION D/B/A THE MORNINGSTAR FOUNDATION ($4,037,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $490k
What Gather Inc does
Mission
Gather, inc.'s mission is to build the capacity of individuals, organizations, and communities to center relationships, ensuring more people access jewish life that is relevant, active, and meaningful to them. Gather does this by engaging in three pillars: training, cities, and organizational capacity.in our training pillars, we consult with other jewish organizations and communities to share our methodology, and practices with jewish leaders and community engagers, to embed relational competency within jewish organizations and communities across the country.building upon our success in dc, we continue to build and sustain relational communities at local levels across different geographic regions. We have two regions, the first in washington, dc, called gatherdc, and the second in the east bay, san francisco, ca, called gatherbay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Gatherdc conducts programs in support of jewish education, outreach, and community building within the greater washington dc area. Gatherdc infuses a relationship- based model of engagement into every aspect of its work, with a "people- first" mindset, a sophisticated relationship engagement management system, and a group of dedicated volunteers who serve as peer engagers on behalf of gatherdc. Gatherdc's relationship-based work ensures that jewish opportunities and jewish social networks will be accessible to an increasing number of young jews year after year; through this work, we are building one of the most dynamic and inclusive cities for millennial and gen z jewish life.gatherbay is an emergent community seeking to connect jewish 20s and 30's to meaningful and engaged jewish lives. (continued on sched. O)
$1,110,808 spent$39,438 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,110,808.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $925k to $1.3M (+43%).
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 8% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of GATHER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Michelle Shapiro Abraham
Exec. Dir./CEO (until 4/2025)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $395k → $1.2M.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $2.2M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GATHER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GATHER INC’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
GATHER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 95% · 2018 51% · 2019 82% · 2020 67% · 2021 58% · 2022 58% · 2023 64% — 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
64% of GATHER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
GATHER INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $786k 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
GATHER INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GATHER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $50
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 GATHER INC
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GATHER INC: 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 GATHER INC?
- GATHER INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,978,098 to it, the largest being THE MORNINGSTAR PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION D/B/A THE MORNINGSTAR FOUNDATION ($4,037,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GATHER INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $6,978,098 in grants to GATHER INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GATHER INC?
- THE MORNINGSTAR PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION D/B/A THE MORNINGSTAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,037,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GATHER INC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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