· Private foundation
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k297 grants · $8.1M
- $50k–250k136 grants · $11M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $1,200,000 |
| WETA | $681,000 |
| DREAMING OUT LOUD INC | $560,000 |
| BLAIR HOUSE RESTORATION FUND | $500,000 |
| JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $475,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $332,500 |
| ROCK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC | $275,000 |
| WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| MANNA INC | $250,000 |
| EDUCATION FORWARD DC | $250,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $237,500 |
| BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER | $225,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| SIGNATURE THEATRE INC | $220,000 |
| WASHINGTON LATIN PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $200,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $11.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% 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
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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
524 repeat relationships — 386 still active in FY2025, 138 since wound down; 55 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS5× · 2021–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +133%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION3× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +8%- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARSone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +3%
- HTHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEone grant, 2022 · $250k
- PMPENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $167k · revenue -74%
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.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
The mission of the d.c. policy center is to arm decision makers with fact-based, unbiased, and reliable research and analyses to help create a vibrant local economy that can maximize opportunities for residents, workers, and businesses in…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.
The district of columbia college access program's (dc cap's) primary purpose is to encourage and enable district of columbia students to attend and graduate college.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.
To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.
Two rivers mission: to nurture a diverse group of students to become lifelong, active participants in their own education, develop a sense of self and community, and become responsible and compassionate members of society.
Court appointed special advocates of DC (CASA DC) promotes court-appointed volunteer advocacy so that every abused and neglected child in the DC foster care or juvenile justice system can be safe, establish permanence and have the…
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
602 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 602 of the 695 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 JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FORWARD DC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds Rock Creek Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMING OUT LOUD INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
- Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds OLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · William S Abell Foundation Inc · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee
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 The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Arts Focus — 100% of income from government
- Rock Creek Conservancy Inc — 60% of income from government
- Reginald S Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children Inc — 45% of income from government
- Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc — 29% of income from government
- Maryland Association of Non-Profit Organizations — 27% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
- Artpreneurs Inc — 18% of income from government
- Casaprince George's County Inc — 17% of income from government
- Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Identity Inc — 7% of income from government
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — 6% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Arts for the Aging Inc — 2% of income from government
- Adventure Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Olney Theatre Corporation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc — 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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