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Charities Aid Foundation America
Caf america's mission is to drive greater, and more impactful, philanthropic giving across the u.s.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14,494 grants below total $555,979,346 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $993,190,177 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $437,210,831 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5609 grants · $39M
- $10k–50k7265 grants · $142M
- $50k–250k1320 grants · $128M
- $250k+300 grants · $247M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $12,641,465 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $7,053,777 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $6,271,073 |
| GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC | $5,845,905 |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND INC | $3,725,207 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $3,643,964 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $3,606,051 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC | $3,547,751 |
| GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK | $3,371,979 |
| NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION | $3,283,176 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,060,446 |
| PYXERA GLOBAL INC | $3,052,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $2,930,350 |
| NATIONAL VOLUNTEER FIRE COUNCIL INC | $2,913,231 |
| GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION | $2,833,855 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $69.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $252M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $248M to organizations and $4.0M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE DONATION · EMPLOYEE RELIEF
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE DONATION · EMPLOYEE RELIEF
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE DONATION · EMPLOYEE RELIEF
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE DONATION · EMPLOYEE RELIEF
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE DONATION · EMPLOYEE RELIEF
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE DONATION · EMPLOYEE RELIEF
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE DONATION · EMPLOYEE RELIEF
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE DONATION · EMPLOYEE RELIEF
Stated purpose: CHARITABLE DONATION · EMPLOYEE RELIEF
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
1719 repeat relationships — 1390 still active in FY2025, 329 since wound down; 76 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MARK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (US) LTD8× · 2017–2024 · $190M · revenue +324% · 90% of their budget
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches7× · 2018–2025 · $33M · revenue +9%
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION6× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +115%
Funded once
- FFLEXPORTORGone grant, 2023 · $17M
- FFLEXPORTORGone grant, 2021 · $5.4M
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSAgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3.5M · revenue +44% · 81% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.
The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…
To build trust and advance peace and prosperity though international exchange.
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
American gas association (the association) is an advocate for natural gas utility companies and their customers. the association helps natural gas utilities achieve operational excellence in the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of…
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance the university of toledo through fundraising, stewardship, and prudent asset management to provide scholarship opportunities for students, tier one athletic programs, education events…
To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.
Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.
The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zebra Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1860 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1860 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MARK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (US) LTD ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ARTICLEGROUP ORG INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Republic Services Charitable Foundation · The Jcpenney Foundation · General Mills Foundation · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Siemer Institute · The Bell Charitable Foundation · Vystar Foundation Inc · Levi Strauss Foundation · Cargill Foundation · Junior Achievement USA · Deloitte Foundation · Car Donation Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Charities Aid Foundation America funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Jersey Primary Care Association Inc — 72% of income from government
- The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- South Shore Hospital Inc — 5% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- National Fire Protection Association — 1% of income from government
- Students 2 Science Inc — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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