Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE
MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,192 to it, the largest being RIPPLEWORKS INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $246k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Multicultural Community Service does
Mission
To encourage, promote and facilitate broad and inclusive civic participation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mcs offers fee-based interpretation and translation services to reduce language barriers in an effort to further promote and foster civic participation by people with limited english proficiency. Interpretation and translation services were offered to clients in 22 languages (amharic, arabic, bengali, cantonese, chinese, french, german, haitian creole, hindi, italian, japanese, korean, lao, mandarin, portuguese, russian, spanish, tagalog, tigrinya, thai, urdu, and vietnamese). In partnership with community healthcare centers, various dc government agencies, and local outreach, mcs served over 6,400 people.
$61,506 spent$62,879 earned by the program25% of program spendingMcs encourages, promotes, and facilitates broad and inclusive civic participation. Providing language access services and education in the washington, dc metro area in over 22 languages, mcs works to open and maintain language access for all dc residents through the language services program. Mcs provides interpretation and translation services, and participates in coalitions with other organizations to uphold the language access act and ensure civic engagement for all of dc's diverse communities. Mcs also fosters job training and professional development in the field, including a community interpreter training course, annual workshops and skill-building seminars.
$181,021 spent75% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $242,527.
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 $162k to $391k (+142%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 10% · 2022 5% · 2023 13% · 2024 2% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $58 → $50k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE’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
MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE: 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 MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE?
- MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,192 to it, the largest being RIPPLEWORKS INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $55,192 in grants to MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE?
- RIPPLEWORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE 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 3 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