Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Carter and Melissa Cafritz 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.
- $265k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 14 | $265k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $250k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $170k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $202k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $231k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $195k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $140k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martha's Table Inc | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The DC Central Kitchen Inc | $170,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Bright Beginnings Inc | $110,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Arc of the United States | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Life Pieces to Masterpieces | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Building Bridges Across the River Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Latin American Youth Center | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martha's Table Inc | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The DC Central Kitchen Inc | $170,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Bright Beginnings Inc | $110,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Arc of the United States | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Life Pieces to Masterpieces | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Building Bridges Across the River Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Latin American Youth Center | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Northern Virginia Family Services Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Gallery of Art | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Critical Exposure Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rebuilding Together Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cornerstones Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Food & Friends Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| DC Alliance of Youth Advocates | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($195k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carter and Melissa Cafritz 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: Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Greater Washington Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust
- How much does Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust give?
- Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $265,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (23%), Arts & Culture (14%), Employment (12%).
- Who are Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Martha's Table Inc ($175k), The DC Central Kitchen Inc ($170k), Bright Beginnings Inc ($110k).
- Does Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carter and Melissa Cafritz 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 Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation, United Way of the National Capital Area, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
- Where is Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust based?
- Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust is based in DC.
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