Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ONE COMMON UNITY
ONE COMMON UNITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $988,317 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($328,881). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $988k
- Net assets
- $492k
What One Common Unity does
Mission
One Common Unity (OCU) breaks cycles of violence and builds compassionate, healthy communities through the transformative power of music, arts and peace education.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Mental health clinicians engaged hundreds of students in evidence-based mental health and substance abuse prevention programs. Clinicians integrate into each school's mental and behavioral health team, working to support youth, especially those impacted by crime and violence in their communities. Ocu's clinicians provide individual and group therapy to an average of 25 students per week, focusing on supporting students to cope with trauma, anxiety, depression, stress and other needs. Teachers, school staff, social workers, and/or partner organizations referred students for treatment.
$1,070,072 spent$111,218 earned by the program54% of program spendingPathways to academic achievement and the healing of our communities. Over the year, our dynamic and holistic programming engaged approximately 3,500 d.c. Youth, families, and educators to lead a shift away from violence through in- school and after-school programs, citywide campaigns, teacher training, family engagement sessions, community concerts, and art showcases. Our activities use evidence-based practices for trauma-informed care, arts empowerment, social- emotional-learning, mindfulness and restorative justice.
$530,033 spent27% of program spendingFinally, ocu provides a wide variety of arts and peace education programs for youth, teachers, families, and community members. We trained dozens of d.c. Educators in social-emotional learning, trauma-informed care, cultural humility, conflict transformation, and other topics as needed. Additionally, ocu's performance troupe, comprised of multiple professional artists and alumni of the fly by light program, gave several performances across the city to promote a community-wide shift away from violence and to build healthy, resilient communities. Even with the challenges of the pandemic, we were able to reach students, parents and community members through school-wide assemblies and community art showcases.
$379,502 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,979,607.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.9M to $621k (−67%).
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: 2019 76% · 2020 63% · 2021 69% · 2022 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ONE COMMON UNITY’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 4 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
Kim Jones
Executive Director
Board chair
Sheherazade Jafari
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $80k → $18k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 ONE COMMON UNITY’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
ONE COMMON UNITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 ONE COMMON UNITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 41% · 2019 39% · 2020 24% · 2021 30% · 2022 65% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.
“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 ONE COMMON UNITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
ONE COMMON UNITY draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ONE COMMON UNITY's revenue grew 18% between 2019 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,461 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022
Government funding ONE COMMON UNITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 ONE COMMON UNITY
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ONE COMMON UNITY: 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 ONE COMMON UNITY?
- ONE COMMON UNITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $988,317 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($328,881). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ONE COMMON UNITY have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $988,317 in grants to ONE COMMON UNITY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONE COMMON UNITY?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $328,881 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONE COMMON UNITY 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 FY2022 (financials across 2019–2022), and the filings of 21 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