Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in the District of Columbia

438
foundations
$1.24B
grants paid, FY2022–FY2025
80
say they accept unsolicited
$10,473
median grant

Grantlas lists 438 foundations based in the District of Columbia — 387 private foundations and 51 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from their 990-PF and Form 990 filings for FY2022–FY2025. Together they paid out $1.24 billion in grants in their latest filing year, and 80 of them (18%) say they accept unsolicited requests. The most common cities are Washington (436), Washington DC (1) and Washngton (1).

80 of them say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Foundations accepting applications in the District of Columbia.

Top 25 of 438 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 55 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in the District of Columbia
Public Welfare Foundation IncWashington, DC$113,108$25.8M$100–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Morris and Gwendolyn CafritzWashington, DC$35,000$23.1M$100–$1.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Eugene & Agnes E Meyer FoundationWashington, DC$35,000$13.6M$500–$375,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Breakthrough Prize FoundationWashington, DC$100,000$12.9M$8,000–$6.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Breakthrough Prize in Life SciencesWashington, DC$1M$9M$588,012–$3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Judy and Peter Blum Kovler FoundationWashington, DC$10,000$5.3M$500–$864,416FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
S & R FoundationWashington, DC$20,000$5M$2,000–$1.4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Alexander & Margaret Stewart TrustWashington, DC$4.1M$4.1M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Richard Lounsbery Foundation IncWashington, DC$50,000$3.8M$3,000–$399,300FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Arca FoundationWashington, DC$75,000$3.8M$5,000–$230,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kolibri Foundation IncWashington, DC$25,000$3.7M$2,500–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Greenwall FoundationWashington, DC$49,809$3.3M$6,500–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The National Academy of EducationWashington, DC$27,500$3.1M$13,750–$70,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Webb Family FoundationWashington, DC$150,000$2M$20,000–$268,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Blue Sands FoundationWashington, DC$8,751$2M$307–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
United States - Japan FoundationWashington, DC$19,022$2M$810–$99,785FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Institute for Technology inWashington, DC$40,050$1.5M$5,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Loyola Foundation IncWashington, DC$1.5M$1.5M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Herb Block FoundationWashington, DC$1.6M$1.4M$1.4M–$1.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
If FoundationWashington, DC$20,000$1.1M$8,100–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
William Orr Dingwall Foundation IncWashington, DC$10,000$1.1M$3,000–$22,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bench Trail FundWashington, DC$492,250$909,500$75,000–$909,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Spectemur Agendo IncWashington, DC$40,000$775,000$15,000–$60,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Walter A Bloedorn FoundationWashington, DC$7,500$727,500$5,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Joseph P Kennedy Jr FoundationWashington, DC$102,500$672,400$102,500–$569,900FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2022–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.