Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC
INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,216,881 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($900,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 592 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 592 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
- The O'Keefe Family Foundation Incportfolio match
- We Trust (In Care of Aragon Trust Company)portfolio match
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.
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 85% · 2019 88% · 2020 93% · 2021 94% · 2022 96% · 2023 89% · 2024 92% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $215k → $21k.
7 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 69% · 2019 91% · 2020 71% · 2021 92% · 2022 93% · 2023 49% — 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
50% of INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
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.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 100 organizations that share your funders
- The O'Keefe Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- We Trust (In Care of Aragon Trust Company)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deer Hollow Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eleanor Crook Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nommontu Foundation Inc Fka Marisa Muller Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Clear Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alexia and Caroline Foundation Inc Fka Paul W Clark Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Counterpart International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John P Kavooras Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David and Anita Keller Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ajg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33.5M on record.
- Agency for International Development$33.5M
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 INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC
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.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Invisible Children Democratic Republic of Congo · exempt
- Invisible Children Central African Republic · exempt
- Invisible Children Sudan · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INVISIBLE CHILDREN 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC?
- INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,216,881 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($900,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,216,881 in grants to INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INVISIBLE CHILDREN INC?
- WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INVISIBLE CHILDREN 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.
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 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. 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing