Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP
WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being AARP ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $791k
What Washington DC Economic Partnership does
Mission
The washington, dc economic partnership is a public-private organization dedicated to expanding commerce in the district of columbia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Business attraction, retention, & expansion business retention, expansion, and attraction (brea) activities are foundational for successful economic development. Wdcep's brea programming supports the district's economic development strategy(s) by directly targeting specific vision and goals such as creating new jobs in high- growth sectors, eliminating key amenity gaps across all neighborhoods (e.g. Retail attraction), nurturing high-growth sectors by attracting investment and supporting innovation clusters, and supporting an urban center that is a destination of choice for innovators, job creators, and visitors.
$1,336,303 spent$644,849 earned by the program45% of program spendingMarketing & pr wdcep positions and promotes business opportunities for the purposes of attracting, retaining, and expanding businesses in the district. This includes implementing a consistent, integrated marketing and communications strategy to promote the district as a premier location to do business and generate new business attraction, retention, and expansion leads. Marketing efforts support the district's economic development strategy(s) by focusing on key "vision themes" such as a destination of choice for innovators, job creators, and visitors; a place where people choose to live, work, visit, and thrive; and the district's vibrant neighborhoods.
$806,514 spent27% of program spendingRetail development - expenses attributed to retail development are incurred to attract retailers to locate in washington, dc's downtown commercial districts and neighborhood areas.
$708,185 spent24% of program spendingEconomic & market intelligence wdcep provides free foundational economic data tools and interactive online content to provide high-quality data and economic analysis to the local and national business community. Interactive content (e.g. Economic development maps) provides critical insight and analysis into various business resources and essential industries to attract, retain, and expand businesses in the district.
$116,976 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,967,978.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $3.4M (+134%).
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 73% · 2018 79% · 2019 79% · 2020 77% · 2021 88% · 2022 80% · 2023 82% · 2024 84% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP’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
WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP 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
71% 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 WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP'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. 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
WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: 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 WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP?
- WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being AARP ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP?
- AARP is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON DC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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