Spotlight Dcorg - Capital City Fund for Investigative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831522500
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2027460333
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$72,486
Expenses
$80,882
Assets
$47,084

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • HARRY JAFFE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • HARRY JAFFE (PRESIDENT)
  • MARGARET ENGEL (DIRECTOR)
  • DENISE ROLARK-BARNES (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

See schedule o.

What it reported doing in 2025

2023 projects funded/published jenny gaithright/dcist&wamu: investigation into dc police budgeting and overtime: https://dcist.com/story/23/10/25/dc-police-top-overtime-earners/ morgan baskin/dcist&wamu: investigation into dc developers profiting from housing vouchers while providing substandard affordable housing. Https://dcist.com/story/23/03/20/sam-razjooyan-housing-choice-voucher-holders-rent/ hola cultura/Washington city paper/wamu: investigation of how climate change affects disadvantaged populations and neighborhoods in dc: https://holacultura.com/podcasts/dcheatislands/ rachel royster/capital community news: investigation of poor security at dc public schools that left teachers unable to lock classroom doors, while others needed to be taped open: https://www.hillrag.com/2023/12/05/unlocked-failing-security-at-dcps/.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.