Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,183,592 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($2,496,191). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $591k
What Special Olympics District of Columbia Inc does
Mission
Provide year-round olympic-type sports, health, education, and inclusion programs for children and adults with intellectual disabilities and closely related developmental disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Special olympics district of columbia provides year round training and athletic competition in 10 olympic-type sports to 2500 individuals with intellectual disabilities in the district of columbia. More than 60 competitions are conducted annually in the district. Other programs include unified champion schools and healthy athletes.unified champion schools engages schools and youth leaders to promote social inclusion and unified sports activities by bringing together students with disabilities and without disabilities on and off the field. Special olympics district of columbia also provides young athletes program to promote sport and play for children with and without intellectual disabilities (id), ages 2 to 7 years old. Young athletes introduces motor skills and basic sport skills. Healthy athletes is dedicated to providing health services and education to special olympics athletes. Special olympics district of columbia is changing the way health professionals interact with people with intellectual disabilities. Volunteer health care professionals provide free health screenings and education to our athletes in the form of eye, dental, physical therapy and health promotion.
$963,892 spent$182,372 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $963,892.
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 2020 to 2021, from $529k to $899k (+70%).
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: 2021 39% · 2022 8% · 2023 9% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Nicole Preston
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $271k → $484k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 24 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 81% · 2019 76% · 2020 74% · 2021 81% · 2022 71% · 2023 82% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
93% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,183,592 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($2,496,191). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $3,183,592 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,496,191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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