Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION
WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,741,510 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,339,965). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Washington Tennis & Education Foundation does
Mission
To build life champions by providing high quality academic, tennis and wellness instruction to low-income students in dc at-risk of academic failure.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Center for excellence (cfe) is an intensive academic, life-skills, and tennis instruction program for students in grades 1-12. Cfe runs 5 days a week mon-fri 4 to 7 p.m. Students receive 90 minutes of individualized math and reading instruction, mandatory homework completion, and 90 minutes of tennis instruction daily. Through a complementary array of partnerships and its professional staff, cfe offers enrichment programming in stem, nutrition and healthy lifestyles, socio-emotional learning, library services, character and cultural education, college prep and career counseling, scholarship development, and mental health services.
$845,608 spent26% of program spendingAn extension of the cfe school year program, cfe summer is the longest summer camp in washington dc, operating for 9 weeks, 5 days a week, from 8am-4pm. Cfe summer provides educationally enriching interactive game-based activities such as chess, robotics, coding, computer games, board games and skills-appropriate tennis clinics, singles and doubles competitive play including access to local, regional and national tournaments. Cfe summer also provides free breakfast and lunch and healthy snacks.
$435,664 spent14% of program spendingTennis center programs: wtef offers beginner to advanced clinics for youth and adults. Our primary programming at our east campus is for youth who live within district of columbia underserved communities. We also offer fee-based programming at our east and west campuses where partial proceeds go towards funding youth programming at our east campus and our outreach programming at district of columbia public and charter schools.
$702,616 spent$846,016 earned by the program22% of program spendingArthur ashe children's program serves students in grades 1-8 and takes place on dc public and charter school campuses. The programs are game-based academic, life-skills and tennis instruction programs operating mon-thurs for 2 hours after school throughout the school year. Homework assistance is provided, and students practice for structured academic and tennis competitions against other schools in these programs throughout the year. These programs have been active for more than 25 years.
$367,177 spent11% of program spendingTennis ball and other programs.
$851,425 spent$50,000 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,202,490.
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 2019 to 2020, from $18M to $25M (+42%).
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 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 2% · 2020 20% · 2021 28% · 2022 5% · 2023 9% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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. 6 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.
Board chair
Sarah Jackson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $295k → $682k.
14 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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 TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
54% 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 TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 23% · 2019 23% · 2020 22% · 2021 16% · 2022 54% · 2023 15% — 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 WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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 TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M 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 TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,741,510 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,339,965). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $6,741,510 in grants to WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,339,965 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION 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.
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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 56 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