Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NORTH FUND
NORTH FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,520,425 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($49,822,934). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. NORTH FUND administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
NORTH FUND administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programNORTH FUND runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$132M
Recipients
208
Contributions on record
$115M
Donors on record
33
Payments out are 1.15x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
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.
- Women Donors Network Actionshared funders
- Soros Economic Development Fundportfolio match
- Ground Game Fundportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $9.3M → $17M.
5 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 NORTH FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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.
Where its funders are
84% of NORTH FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 33 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Women Donors Network Actionshared fundersCA · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- Soros Economic Development Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ground Game Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woodcock Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- All Americans Voteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Realize Impactportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Redwood Creek Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bauman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mastercard Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groundswell Action Fundshared fundersCA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Wellness Advocacy Fundshared fundersMD · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH FUND: 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 NORTH FUND?
- NORTH FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,520,425 to it, the largest being SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ($49,822,934). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. NORTH FUND administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does NORTH FUND have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $114,520,425 in grants to NORTH FUND, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH FUND?
- SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $49,822,934 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH FUND 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 33funders 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