Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION
THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being JOHN JAY HOPKINS FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- The Keehn Family Foundation Incshared funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income held at $2k.
From the IRS filings of THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION’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
THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- The Keehn Family Foundation Incshared fundersMD · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gardinor-Prunaret Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The CD Shiah Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hellenic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ellen and Ian Graham Charitable Foundation U/A 12-18-2004portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas and Linda Knox Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sonance Cares Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: 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 THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION?
- THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being JOHN JAY HOPKINS FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,000 in grants to THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION?
- JOHN JAY HOPKINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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