Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SCORE Association
SCORE Association (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,597,961 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($217,202). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $12M
What SCORE Association does
Mission
Provide free and confidential small business mentoring and no/low-cost education for entrepreneurs nationwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Field Programming and support of small businesses including mentoring, education programs, workshops, webinars, and client support.
$8,526,423 spent57% of program spendingTo achieve the mission of assisting America's economic development, growth and stability by supporting and helping small businesses.
$6,321,101 spentof which $95,001 as grants$752,906 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,847,524.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $9.5M to $11M (+18%).
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 71% · 2018 68% · 2019 69% · 2020 74% · 2021 78% · 2022 78% · 2023 83% · 2024 80% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Bridget Weston
CEO
Board chair
Julie Poland
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $62k → $241k.
28 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $188k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest SCORE Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SCORE Association raised.
From the IRS filings of SCORE Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
SCORE Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
92% 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 SCORE Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 23% · 2019 22% · 2020 27% · 2021 21% · 2022 19% · 2023 34% — 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.
How long its funders stay
34% of SCORE Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
72% of SCORE Association'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 $454k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Government funding SCORE Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $104.3M on record.
- Small Business Administration$104.3M
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 SCORE Association
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 48 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- SCORE Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCORE Association: 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 SCORE Association?
- SCORE Association (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,597,961 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($217,202). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCORE Association have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $1,597,961 in grants to SCORE Association, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCORE Association?
- LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $217,202 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCORE Association 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 54 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing