Alabama · Private foundation
The Caritas Fund
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.
- $220k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Caritas Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 26 | $205k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $185k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $135k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $144k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $140k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $115k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $104k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $77k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Toxaway Charities | $90,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Respite for All Foundation | $35,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Young Mens Christian Association | $30,013 | 6 | 0% |
| River Region United Way | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Christ the King Episcopal Church | $28,700 | 5 | n/a |
| Thomas Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Washington Association of New Jersey | $21,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart Foundation Inc | $17,400 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($512k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Caritas Fund 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: Viro Fund · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · The Landa Fund · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · The Alys Foundationinc · Alfa Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc
How this is measured
About The Caritas Fund
- How much does The Caritas Fund give?
- The Caritas Fund reported 27 grants totaling $220,007 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Caritas Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (15%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Caritas Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Lake Toxaway Charities ($90k), Heart of Alabama Food Bank Inc ($80k), Respite for All Foundation ($35k).
- Does The Caritas Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Caritas Fund 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 The Caritas Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Viro Fund, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Caritas Fund based?
- The Caritas Fund is based in AL.
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