GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Safe Streets Safe Communities

Washington, DC · EIN 83-1916378. Reported 22 grants totalling $9,919,000 to 20 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

20organizations funded
$225,000median reported grant
$9,919,000granted, 2022-2024
18%of grantees funded again the next year
30%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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 20 distinct organizations, with 30% 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. 18% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $225,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $400,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $2,990,000. 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.
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
11 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
Leadership Action FundWilmington, DE$2,990,000112022
Okla Conservative AllianceSan Diego, CA$1,758,000112022
United for Clean PowerBowie, MD$1,515,000332024
A Public Voice IncMclean, VA$750,000112022
Delta Good Hand PacBaton Rouge, LA$425,000112022
Defend US PacArlington, VA$400,000112022
Americans for Citizen VotingWoodbridge, VA$300,000112024
One NationHaymarket, VA$300,000112023
Keystone Renewal PacPittsburgh, PA$250,000112024
Prosperity Alliance IncFairfax, VA$250,000112023
Reboot LouisianaGonzales, LA$250,000112023
Security Is Stength LLCWashington, DC$200,000112024
Bluegrass Freedom ActionNewport, KY$185,000112023
True Patriot PacJefferson City, MO$94,000112024
Kentucky Conserv AllianceLouisville, KY$75,000112024
Hometown Freedom Action NetWashington, DC$50,000112024
Oklahoma Conservative RenewalFairfax, VA$50,000112024
The Wonderdog PacJefferson City, MO$46,000112024
La Leadership FundWashington, DC$21,000112024
Good Government AllianceAlexandria, VA$10,000112024

1 of 20 (5%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 4 of 20 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.

Public & Societal Benefit
3 orgs
Environment
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20226$7,773,000$1,100,000
20235$1,025,000$250,000
202411$1,121,000$50,000

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

30% of its giving went to organizations in Delaware. 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.

Delaware
$3.0M
Virginia
$2.1M
California
$1.8M
Maryland
$1.5M
Louisiana
$675K
District of Columbia
$271K
Kentucky
$260K
Pennsylvania
$250K

Down to the city

Wilmington, DE
$3.0M
San Diego, CA
$1.8M
Bowie, MD
$1.5M
Mclean, VA
$750K
Baton Rouge, LA
$425K
Arlington, VA
$400K

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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.

American Advancement7 shared recipientsProsperity Alliance Inc4 shared recipientsAmerican Policy Coalition4 shared recipientsAmerican Exceptionalism Institute3 shared recipientsThe Revitalization Project2 shared recipientsThe Concord Fund2 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 $225,000 -- 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 Delaware.
  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 Safe Streets Safe Communities's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 11 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: 6218 Georgia Ave Nw 1-847, Washington, DC, 20011.

EIN 83-1916378 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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