· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE INC | $30,000 |
| LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES | $30,000 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $25,000 |
| WETA | $20,000 |
| CORNERSTONE | $15,000 |
| CRITICAL EXPOSURE | $10,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $10,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICE | $10,000 |
| BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC | $10,000 |
| FOODS AND FRIENDS | $10,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER | $10,000 |
| BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMARTHA'S TABLE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +41%
- TDTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +85%
- BBBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $10k
- DADC ALLIANCE OF YOUTH ADVOCATESone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -100%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
To be the leading solution-focused resource in building strong, sustainable families and communities through family support services, innovative training, community capacity building, economic development and social enterprise.
Creighton community foundation's (ccf) core program "community works" leverages neighborhood schools to support vibrant communities in the poorest parts of urban phoenix, where neighborhoods suffer from poverty- driven disadvantage and…
Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…
Educare dc's mission is to eliminate the opportunity gap for young children living in poverty and give them the skills necessary for success in kindergarten and beyond. we work at the intersection of practice, policy, and research to…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Critical Exposure Inc ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds DC ALLIANCE OF YOUTH ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carter and Melissa Cafritz Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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