Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS
WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $1k
What Whwg Initiative for Studying Public Affairs does
Mission
Wispa's mission is 1. To sponsor and organize non-partisan discussions of issues of the day, primarily through salon dinners and lunches intended to educate, inform and offer room for debate among the guests; these events typically include an expert speaker who, after presenting, is cross examined by members of the audience. 2. Act as a recipient of grant money on behalf of a few select scholars, to whom (in contrast to their university or other affiliations) it conveys the funds without taking a fee.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
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.
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 $61k to $1k (−98%).
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.
100% of WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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 WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS’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
WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
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
WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS's revenue fell 68% between 2018 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,624 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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.
Public support
73%
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 WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS: 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 WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS?
- WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
- Who is the largest funder of WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS?
- SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHWG INITIATIVE FOR STUDYING PUBLIC AFFAIRS 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 FY2020 (financials across 2018–2020), 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