The Washington Commanders Charitable
Ashburn, VA · EIN 54-1982366. Reported 64 grants totalling $1,847,121 to 52 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Washington Commanders Charitable, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B92) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 52 distinct organizations, with 14% 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.
- How much its list changes. 12% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 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 $15,443. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,848 and the largest $150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Food Bank | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Childrens Hospital Foundation | Washington, DC | $144,960 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | Triangle, VA | $137,407 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Just Keep Livin Foundation | Sherman Oaks, CA | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington Inc | Washington, DC | $100,450 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kevin Durant Charitable Foundation | Miami, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Out Teach | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Digital Pioneers Academy Corporation | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Greater Washington | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Positive Coaching Alliance | Oakland, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Heart of America Foundation | Washington, DC | $46,514 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Brem Foundation to Defeat Breast Cancer Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $45,617 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Everfi Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $42,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Beyond the Entertainer Inc | Southlake, TX | $40,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cornucopia Inc | Euclid, OH | $39,063 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leveling the Playing Field Inc | Rockville, MD | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wolf Trap Animal Rescue | Fairfax, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| World Central Kitchen Incorporated | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| United Way of the National Capital Area | Vienna, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc | New York, NY | $22,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Scholasticbook Fairs | Cincinnati, OH | $21,748 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the World | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Richmond Public Schools | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Toys for Tots Inc | Binghamton, NY | $15,887 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hortons Kids Inc | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mentoring Through Athletics Inc | Bowie, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Prince Georges County Memorial Library System Foundation Inc | Largo, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| USO - Metro | Fort Myer, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Design Foundry | Landover, MD | $13,218 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $12,715 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | Frisco, TX | $12,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ascendfs | Toronto | $11,043 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc | Washington, DC | $10,580 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| K9S for Warriors Inc | Ponte Vedra, FL | $10,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Acts Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Beacon House Community Ministry Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation | Reston, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Doorways for Women & Families Inc | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fairmont Heights Football Alumni Association | Laurel, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Foundation for Appalachian Ohio | Nelsonville, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fraternal Order of Police | Leesburg, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of Roosevelt High School | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Future Mogul Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Latin American Youth Center Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lewis Sports Booster Club | Springfield, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ward 5 Warriors Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Window Rock Hs Athletics | Fort Defiance, AZ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation Inc | Carmel, IN | $9,138 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Elizabeth Redd Elem School | Richmond, VI | $7,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ingleside Elementary School | Norfolk, VA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hzdg | Rockville, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Broad Rock Elem School | Richmond, VA | $5,848 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
8 of 52 (15%) 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.
- Capital Area Food Bank
Programs Donation - Annual Contribution - Junior Achievement of Greater Washington
Program Donation - Annual Contribution - Brem Foundation
Donation of funds raised from BCA T-shirt sales
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 of 52 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 20 | $417,199 | $10,290 |
| 2021 | 16 | $375,572 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 13 | $368,076 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $686,274 | $30,000 |
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
48% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,443 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- 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 The Washington Commanders Charitable's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 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: 21300 Coach Gibbs Drive, Ashburn, VA, 20147.
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