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The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$174k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$71k0%
FY20223$8k100%
FY20213$15k67%
FY20201$15k0%
FY20198$37k75%
FY20185$107k60%
FY20176$103kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$120kArts & Culture$119kHealth$55kSocial Science$22kPhilanthropy$20kCommunity Improvement$15kRecreation & Sports$8kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C$110,0003n/a
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$57,27320%
Regents of the University of Michigan$55,0002n/a
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts$30,00020%
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars$18,00020%
Federal City Council$15,0001n/a
Higher Achievement Program Inc$9,50010%
Management Leadership for Tomorrow$5,00010%
Junior Tennis Champions Center Inc$5,00010%
Meridian International Center$3,50010%
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All grantees of The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C$110,0003n/a
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$57,27320%
Regents of the University of Michigan$55,0002n/a
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts$30,00020%
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars$18,00020%
Federal City Council$15,0001n/a
Higher Achievement Program Inc$9,50010%
Management Leadership for Tomorrow$5,00010%
Junior Tennis Champions Center Inc$5,00010%
Meridian International Center$3,50010%
Combined Cathedral Crews Rowing Clubinc$2,70020%
American Jewish Committee$2,50010%
Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia$2,50010%
The Shakespeare Theatre$2,00010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $57,273 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJohn F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHigher Achievement Program Inc: $9,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetManagement Leadership for Tomorrow: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Tennis Champions Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeridian International Center: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Cathedral Crews Rowing Clubinc: $2,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shakespeare Theatre: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust

How much does The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust give?
The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust reported 3 grants totaling $71,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (32%), Health (15%).
Who are The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C ($110k), Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation ($57k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($55k).
Does The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Conrad and Ludmila 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 The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust based?
The Conrad and Ludmila Cafritz Charitable Trust is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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