Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HALCYON HOUSE
HALCYON HOUSE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,136,312 to it, the largest being Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc ($3,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Halcyon House does
Mission
Halcyon lifts up innovators and creators who seek to make the world a better place, giving them the tools and opportunities they need to bring their ideas to life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Halcyon incubator and intensives: the program offers fellowships to support early-stage impact-driven business founders from around the world. The fellowships include a four-month residential fellowship in washington, d.c., as well as intensive fellowships that serve different international communities, sectors, or demographic groups with tailored needs. Halcyon's fellowships offer a combination of leadership coaching, legal support, consulting supporting, coaching, mentorship, residency, skill-building, and cash stipends to help founders scale businesses solving problems in every sector, from education, to energy, to health care. Halcyon incubator offers these fellowships at no cost to participating entrepreneurs, and takes no equity in their ventures for the fellowship.since launching in 2014 halcyon has supported 288 startup ventures, which have gone on to raise almost $500 million to scale their businesses, create over 6,000 jobs, and impact the lives of 9.3 million people around the world. Seventy-eight percent of our ventures had a founder of color, and seventy-five percent have a woman founder or co-founder. Sourced at their founding stages, 84% of ventures are still in…
$2,077,186 spentof which $635,436 as grants84% of program spendingImpact investing: as part of its effort to grow the impact-driven business ecosystem and fuel impact-driven startups, halcyon has launched three funding vehicles. While halcyon incubator fellowships take no equity, founders shared a need for access to likeminded funders, leading halcyon to create:1) the halyon fund, a $5m investment fund supporting halcyon incubator ventures that do want to pursue venture capital funding. To date, the halcyon fund has a portfolio of 12 ventures.2) halcyon angels, an active angel investing group that sees halcyon incubator ventures as well as other early-stage impact-driven startups. The halcyon angels meet six times per year to hear pitches.3) halcyon microloan fund, an alternative funding source for d.c.-based halcyon incubator ventures that choose not to pursue venture capital funding at this time, but can benefit from an infusion of funding. Loans of up to $20,000 are available, with generous terms designed to support scaling the ventures.
$402,873 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,480,059.
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 2018 to 2019, from $13M to $675k (−95%).
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: 2018 7% · 2019 8% · 2020 9% · 2021 20% · 2022 35% · 2023 19% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of HALCYON HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Martha Metz
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 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 1 funder to 15 funders, grant income rose $3k → $1.3M.
11 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $203k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HALCYON HOUSE raised.
From the IRS filings of HALCYON HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
HALCYON HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 88% · 2020 80% · 2021 70% · 2022 46% · 2023 40% — 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
38% of HALCYON HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
75% of HALCYON HOUSE's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
HALCYON HOUSE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HALCYON HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.8M
- Department of State$625k
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 HALCYON HOUSE
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Halcyon Fund Gp LLC · disregarded
- Halcyon Investment Management LLC · disregarded
- Halcyon Angels · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HALCYON HOUSE: 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 HALCYON HOUSE?
- HALCYON HOUSE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,136,312 to it, the largest being Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc ($3,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HALCYON HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $10,136,312 in grants to HALCYON HOUSE, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HALCYON HOUSE?
- Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HALCYON HOUSE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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