Top Giving Foundations: Washington DC

The following list of top giving foundations in Washington DC is derived from The Grantsmanship Center'ssm funding databases. All of the foundations listed have been prescreened to ensure that they have a staff, issue RFPs, or otherwise indicate an interest in receiving proposals. This also means that some foundations who give large amounts of money have been omitted because they do not meet these qualifications. A maximum of forty foundations is listed for each state.

More detailed information about these foundations- including their program areas, types of funding, application procedures, and more- can be found on GrantDomain - The Grantsmanship Center'ssm exclusive online database of funding information.

The top giving foundations in the state of Washington DC:

Foundation Name	Total Annual Giving

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation	$79,970,351
American Near East Refugee Aid	$69,727,625
America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc.	$69,382,813
The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region	$54,302,793
Pan American Development Foundation	$49,557,791
The Freedom Forum, Inc.	$41,126,918
Freedom House	$32,764,541
FINCA International	$29,397,764
Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation	$29,019,048
The German Marshall Fund of the United States	$25,594,628
Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.	$23,476,197
The Wyss Foundation	$21,147,628
Summit Fund of Washington	$19,882,793
The Gottesman Fund	$16,255,781
Aga Khan Foundation USA	$12,611,723
Stewart R. Mott Foundation	$12,044,976
Wallace Global Fund	$10,835,023
The Eurasia Foundation	$9,381,487
AARP Foundation	$8,418,870
Moriah Fund	$7,214,000
Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation	$6,539,174
The Wallace Genetic Foundation, Inc.	$6,221,000
The Global Fund for Children	$5,911,592
The Summit Foundation	$5,695,300
The NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education	$5,332,229
Bauman Family Foundation, Inc.	$5,301,000
The Ocean Foundation	$4,814,144
The Middle East Media Research Institute	$4,648,440
Banyan Tree Foundation	$4,374,001
New Israel Fund	$4,366,173
ActionAid International USA	$4,273,287
The Philip L. Graham Fund	$4,084,000
National Credit Union Foundation	$3,944,364
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation	$3,905,817
Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.	$3,363,400
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation	$3,356,917
Citybridge Foundation	$3,196,099
The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation, Inc.	$3,006,222
Youth Service America	$2,662,606
Washington Area Women's Foundation	$2,291,571

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