Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES
ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $541,307 to it, the largest being THE LEWIS PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ($412,076). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $165k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $541k
- Net assets
- $25k
What Roadwork Center for Cultures in Disputed Territories does
Mission
Founded in 1978 by women leaders from african american civil rights, womens, global justice, and lesbian-feminist movements, roadwork aims at transforming consciousness and creating new movements in global arts and social justice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
American indian musicians scholarship - new project
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
1)Oral History and Documentary Projects: Signing the Songs- on ASL Interpreter, Shirley Childress Johnson; Yasmeen Williams - Web site, Wikipedia entry and Documentary Short; Sisterfire SongTalk: Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, Martha Gonzalez, and Barbara Dane (with Smithsonian Folklife Festival); How the Pandemic Affecting the Navajo Nation, Smithsonian Magazine Digital publication; Barbara Dane: Reflecting on 50 Years of Paredon Records on Smithsonian Folkways Recording Web site
$10,446 spent$8,250 earned by the program5% of program spending2)GALACTIC: Bedouin-Navajo planning meeting for exchange program in Jordan; Jumpstarting Global Indigenous Studies workshops at Navajo Technical Univ. and Dine College;
$40,817 spent$41,817 earned by the program18% of program spending3)The Heartbeat Music Project: fundraisers for COVID Relief for Navajo Nation and the inaugural American Indian Musicians Scholarship, in collaboration with The Violin Channel; Dine Youth Music Instruction, Recipient of The Lewis Prize COVID-19 Community Resource Fund
$173,882 spentof which $4,000 as grants$113,162 earned by the program77% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $225,145.
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 2023 to 2024, from $94k to $26k (−73%).
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 18% · 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $173k.
3 of 7 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.
From the IRS filings of ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES’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
ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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: 2017 66% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2022 98% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES draws 94% 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. $85k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES
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
97% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES: 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 ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES?
- ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $541,307 to it, the largest being THE LEWIS PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ($412,076). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $541,307 in grants to ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES?
- THE LEWIS PRIZE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $412,076 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROADWORK CENTER FOR CULTURES IN DISPUTED TERRITORIES 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 7 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