Grants and funding in District of Columbia
16,733 foundations reported granting into District of Columbia on their most recent IRS filings: 47,984 itemized grants worth $8.2B between them. On top of that, 0 live grant programs and 84 contract opportunities are specific to District of Columbia, alongside 3,344 nationwide programs also open here.
- foundations granting into the state
- 16,733
- of 129,981 grantmaking foundations on file
- in itemized grants into the state
- $8.2B
- across 47,984 grants on IRS filings
- live grants specific to District of Columbia
- 0
- of 3,984 live grants tracked nationwide
- community lenders serving the state
- 44
- of 483 CDFIs on file
What a typical foundation grant runs here
The 16,733 foundations granting into District of Columbia, grouped by the average size of their grants. The middle of this chart is where most applications belong: funders whose typical check is thousands, not millions.
Who gives the most into District of Columbia
The five foundations reporting the largest itemized grant dollars into District of Columbia on their most recent filings. Size and openness are different things: the giants here are mostly endowments that choose their own recipients, which is why the list worth working from is the 16,733 above filtered to funders that accept applications.
Who the District of Columbia-specific grants are for
District of Columbia has 0 live grant programs specific to the state right now. That is too few to chart honestly, so we will not. The 3,344 nationwide programs open to District of Columbia organizations are where the volume is.
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The lenders almost nobody checks
44 community development lenders serve District of Columbia: below-market debt that takes no ownership, for organizations a bank would make wait. Among them: Community Reinvestment Fund, Inc., NDN Fund, Inc., Community Impact Loan Fund, Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, Seed Commons. Quillify tracks all 483 nationwide alongside the grants, because the right answer to a funding gap is sometimes a loan you can actually get.
District of Columbia foundation grants by focus
The foundations above, cut by what they fund and filtered to the ones that accept applications.
- Education grants in District of Columbia (19 funders)
- Arts, Culture & Humanities grants in District of Columbia (12 funders)
Opportunity figures count live, unexpired programs as of September 1, 2026 and refresh twice monthly. Foundation figures come from IRS filings for tax year 2022 and move as new filings arrive. Segment counts are programs that explicitly name the segment; programs open to any organization type are reported separately, never double-counted.
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