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Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc

Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being PENNY AND ROBERT SARVER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$100k
Net assets
$938k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc does

Mission

Thurgood Marshall Center Trust, Inc was established to preserve, rehabilitate, develop and operate the Anthony Bowen Landmark Building for the social and cultural benefit of the District of Columbia and the Shaw community residents.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Landmark Building is utilized for social and cultural benefit of the residents of the District of Columbia, especially the Shaw community in Northwest DC.

    $983,687 spent$960,645 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. To ignite the light within our Students in the field of STEAM, Leadership Development, and Diversity & Inclusion to help them discover their talents and sharpening their skills to prepare for the future.

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $983,687.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 105 ($1.1M) Expenses 107 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 89 ($929k) Expenses 97 ($986k) Net assets 96 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 86 ($894k) Expenses 88 ($904k) Net assets 95 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 83 ($870k) Expenses 89 ($912k) Net assets 92 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 93 ($976k) Expenses 119 ($1.2M) Net assets 75 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 96 ($1.0M) Expenses 110 ($1.1M) Net assets 66 ($938k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (96)Expenses (110)Net assets (66)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.3M to $3.8M (−10%).

$4.2M
$4.0M
$4.1M
$4.3M
$4.3M
$3.8M
$3.6M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’18
$3k
’19
−$57k
’20
−$9k
’21
−$42k
’22
−$243k
’23
−$119k
’24
0.8
months of
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

Thomasina Yearwood

President/CEO

Board chair

Benjamin Chavis PhD

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed15151414201616
Joined·+3+1+0+11+6+0
No longer listed·3205100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc’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.

Where its funders are

Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.

AZ

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100k to it.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc?
Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being PENNY AND ROBERT SARVER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc?
PENNY AND ROBERT SARVER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Thurgood Marshall Center Trust 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 1 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