Illinois · Private foundation
Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $199k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $188k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $199k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $25k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $143k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $16k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $30k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $598k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $713k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $720k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $2,225,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy | $294,900 | 3 | 2% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Center for Enriched Living Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Mario Lemieux Foundation | $53,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Special Gifts Theatre Inc Co Elise Larsen | $26,025 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Place of New Trier Township | $19,977 | 1 | 1% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Goldie B Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative | $11,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Nssra Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($249k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust
- How much does Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust give?
- Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust reported 16 grants totaling $199,257 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Health (15%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($2.2M), Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ($295k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($275k).
- Does Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust based?
- Cafaro-Livingston Charitable Trust is based in IL.
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