GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

District of Columbia Primary Care

Washington, DC · EIN 52-1999196. Reported 63 grants totalling $6,113,424 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

29organizations funded
$41,500median reported grant
$6,113,424granted, 2021-2024
64%of grantees funded again the next year
21%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For District of Columbia Primary Care, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E80) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $41,500. Half of what it reported fell between $19,000 and $123,555; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $683,312. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
24 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
11 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
12 grants
$250,000 Or More
7 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Clinovations IncWashington, DC$1,313,439332024
Zane Networks LLCWashington, DC$1,256,624332024
Childrens NationalWashington, DC$597,414332023
Crisp DCWashington, DC$462,103332024
Howard UniversityWashington, DC$458,088332023
Unity Health Care IncWashington, DC$257,565532023
Enlightened IncWashington, DC$253,438332024
Marys Center for Maternal and Child Care IncWashington, DC$201,005322022
Latin American Youth Center IncWashington, DC$182,528222023
Bread for the City IncWashington, DC$172,860332024
La Clinica Del Pueblo IncWashington, DC$133,150442024
Family and Medical Counseling Service IncWashington, DC$115,000332024
Community Clinic IncSilver Spring, MD$100,000112021
Neighborhood HealthAlexandria, VA$100,000112021
DC Action for Children Today DC ActWashington, DC$78,000222023
Generation HopeWashington, DC$75,000332023
Health Care for the Homeless IncBaltimore, MD$75,000112021
Elaine Ellis Center of Health IncWashington, DC$47,150222024
Young Womens Christian Association of the National Capital AreaWashington, DC$39,000222022
Educare DCWashington, DC$29,000222022
The Mary Elizabeth House Inc a MinistryWashington, DC$29,000222022
George Washington UniversityAshburn, VA$24,560112022
Healthy Teen Network IncTakoma Park, MD$23,500112021
Community of Hope IncWashington, DC$23,000222024
United Planning OrganizationWashington, DC$20,000112021
Total Family Care CoalitionWashington, DC$19,000112022
Friendship Public Charter SchoolWashington, DC$10,000112022
Whitman-Walker Clinic IncWashington, DC$10,000112024
Whitney M Young JR Health Center IncAlbany, NY$8,000112023

19 of 29 (66%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
7 orgs
Human Services
6 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Youth Development
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202114$1,156,460$54,500
202223$1,370,710$24,560
202316$2,460,877$62,679
202410$1,125,377$42,145

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

95% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

District of Columbia
$5.8M
Maryland
$198K
Virginia
$125K
New York
$8K

Down to the city

Washington, DC
$5.8M
Silver Spring, MD
$100K
Alexandria, VA
$100K
Baltimore, MD
$75K
Ashburn, VA
$25K
Takoma Park, MD
$24K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Greater Washington Community Foundation15 shared recipientsThe Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz13 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $41,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from District of Columbia Primary Care's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1620 I Street Nw 300, Washington, DC, 20006.

EIN 52-1999196 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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