Washington Interfaith Network

What Washington Interfaith Network does

Washington Interfaith Network (WIN DC) is a multi-faith, multi-racial community-organizing nonprofit founded in 1996 and headquartered at Luther Place Memorial Church in Washington, DC. The organization operates as a coalition of more than 45 member institutions — congregations, unions, and community associations — that together represent approximately 25,000 families across all eight wards of the District. WIN's core activities are grassroots organizing, leader training through house meetings and action campaigns, and direct advocacy that pressures DC government and corporate counterparties to deliver concrete policy and investment outcomes.

WIN's programmatic offerings are organized around five issue campaigns: affordable housing, climate and healthy housing, jobs and economic equity, public safety, and homelessness. The coalition's recent track record includes over 2,800 affordable housing units created, $450 million in affordable housing investments secured in the prior year, passage of the Healthy Homes Act enabling 30,000 homeowners to electrify at no cost, and a $36 million commitment from PEPCO for Black- and minority-owned businesses. WIN is currently driving the WIN VOTES 2026 voter-engagement campaign around the June 16, 2026 DC Democratic Primary, including ranked-choice-voting education and a districtwide May 17 candidates forum targeting 1,000+ organized residents.

The business model is a nonprofit, community-coalition structure: recurring member dues and donations via PayPal form the primary revenue base, supplemented by philanthropy. There is no technology platform, no commercial pricing, and no AI/ML component. Distribution occurs through direct membership and field organizing. Technology is explicitly not applicable — WIN's competitive advantage derives from institutional relationships, organizing methodology, and a 29-year track record of policy wins rather than from any proprietary software or data assets.

Name

Washington Interfaith Network

Legal name

Washington Interfaith Network

Website

https://windc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Washington Interfaith Network (WIN DC) is a 1996-founded community-organizing nonprofit coalition of 45+ congregations, unions, and associations representing 25,000 DC families across all eight wards, delivering advocacy on affordable housing, public safety, economic equity, and homelessness.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Organizing and Advocacy Services

NAICS

Other Social Advocacy Organizations (813319), Civic and Social Organizations (81341)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Democracy, Voting Rights & Civic Participation Advocacy (BPAGAFAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Affordable Housing & Community Development (Housing, Community Land Trusts) (BPAGALAC), Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB)

Keywords

• Community organizing
• Affordable housing advocacy
• Civic engagement
• Faith-based coalition
• Social justice advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Member Dues: WIN generates revenue through donations (as evidenced by the Donate button on their website) and likely member dues from their 45+ member institutions representing congregations, unions, and community associations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Washington Interfaith Network (WIN DC) is a multi-faith, multi-racial community organizing nonprofit that convenes 45+ member institutions (congregations, unions, and community associations) representing over 25,000 DC families across all 8 wards. Through grassroots organizing, leadership development, and issue campaigns, WIN drives policy and corporate accountability on affordable housing, climate/healthy housing, economic equity, public safety, and homelessness.

Product overview

Washington Interfaith Network (WIN DC) is a community organizing nonprofit that operates as a coalition of 45+ member institutions. Their offerings include community organizing services across all 8 DC wards, voter engagement campaigns (WIN VOTES 2026), and issue-based advocacy programs focused on affordable housing, public safety, climate/healthy housing, jobs/economic equity, and homelessness. Rather than a technology platform, WIN DC provides grassroots organizing, leadership development, and advocacy services to advance social justice initiatives for low and middle-income families in Washington, DC.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• WIN VOTES 2026 Nonpartisan voter engagement and civic participation campaign organized by WIN DC around the June 16, 2026 Democratic Primary, including ranked choice voting education, a districtwide candidate forum, and mobilization of 25,000 families across all 8 wards around a six-issue WIN agenda.
• Affordable Housing Campaign

Quantifiable outcome

• 2,800+ affordable housing units created
• +4 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• PepcocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWIN negotiated with PEPCO (the utility company) who committed $36 million to support Black- and minority-owned businesses in under-resourced communities as part of WIN's economic equity campaigns.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Faith in Action: Faith in Action is the national federation of which WIN is a regional affiliate; it operates the same broad-based, congregation-centered organizing model across dozens of cities and is the most structurally comparable peer.
• Industrial Areas Foundation: IAF is the oldest and largest US community-organizing network, running the same house-meeting-to-action campaign model as WIN but with broader geographic reach and a longer institutional history.
• People's Action: People's Action is a national federation of community-organizing groups including several DC-area affiliates; it pursues similar affordable-housing and economic-equity campaigns at greater scale.

Direct peers

• ONE DC: ONE DC is a DC-based organizing group focused on Black-led community power, displacement, and tenant rights, competing for the same constituency and policy wins as WIN.
• The Metropolitan Organization (TMO): TMO is a Houston-area IAF affiliate that uses the same congregation-based organizing model to negotiate on housing, immigration, and education with comparable scale and concrete wins.
• Washington CAN (Community Action Network): Washington CAN is a DC-based low-income organizing coalition operating in the same city and policy terrain (housing, economic justice) as WIN, though anchored more in individual members than institutions.
• Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD): BUILD is a direct sister organization running the identical broad-based, congregation-and-union-led organizing playbook in Baltimore, making it the closest city-level peer in terms of structure, method, and outputs.
• Jews United for Justice (JUFJ): JUFJ is a DC-area Jewish social-justice organizing coalition using nearly identical rabbinical and congregational organizing methods on overlapping housing and economic-justice issues.

Regional players

• Coalition for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Development (CNHED): CNHED is a DC-focused affordable-housing intermediary that influences the same Housing Production Trust Fund and development policy WIN organizes around, operating more as a policy coalition than a base-building org.
• Casa in Action: Casa in Action is a DMV-area immigrant and working-class organizing network that uses similar house-meeting and civic-engagement tactics in adjacent DC-area geography on housing and worker rights.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/InterfaithWin
• Facebookfacebook.com/washingtoninterfaithnetwork
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/washington-interfaith-network

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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