Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES
WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,375,888 to it, the largest being CLARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC DBA A JAMES & ALICE B CLARK FOUNDATION ($2,400,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Washington Nationals Philanthropies does
Mission
Washington Nationals Philanthropies is the official charitable arm of the washington nationals. Its mission is to help children, families, and communities thrive through sports-based youth development and access to healthy food. The organization delivers on this commitment by spurring investment in community-based programs that address the disparity of opportunity for residents of the region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Washington Nationals Philanthropies operates the washington nationals youth baseball academy, providing a continuum of free youth development and sports programs to more than 1,000 d.c. Youth ages 5-18 each year. Programs serve ward 7 and 8 residents year-round at the organization's ward 7-based facility, and expand to serve youth at sites throughout the city during the summer. As an extension of the academy's community footprint, Washington Nationals Philanthropies has supported the distribution of more than 1 million meals into the d.c. Community since 2018 through food access programs, partnerships, and grants.
$1,961,461 spent$522,214 earned by the program90% of program spendingIn 2024, Washington Nationals Philanthropies made grants to 11 organizations supporting core programmatic pillars of food access and youth development and advancing the charitable initiatives of nationals players and major league baseball.
$219,108 spentof which $167,463 as grants$52,358 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,180,569.
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 $7.0M to $11M (+58%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 3% · 2023 35% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Rick Schifter
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $190k → $511k.
14 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $712k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES raised.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 64% · 2019 29% · 2020 36% · 2021 23% · 2022 39% · 2023 35% — 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
37% of WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $754k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES is better cushioned than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: 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 NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES?
- WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,375,888 to it, the largest being CLARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC DBA A JAMES & ALICE B CLARK FOUNDATION ($2,400,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $5,375,888 in grants to WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES?
- CLARK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC DBA A JAMES & ALICE B CLARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 59 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