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The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23M
Granted FY2025still arriving
451
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$25MEducation$17MHuman Services$14MHousing & Shelter$10MHealth$7.1MCrime & Legal$7.0MYouth Development$6.6MPhilanthropy$4.8MOther$0
02FY2025 · 451 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k297 grants · $8.1M
  • $50k–250k136 grants · $11M
  • $250k+10 grants · $4.8M
$35,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$636M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
EDUCATION FORWARD DC$250,000
WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$250,000
MANNA INC$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $11.0M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $60k → 17%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $70k → 7%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $60k → 7%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $60k → 7%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $60k → 7%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $70k → 8%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC: $60k → 14%RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC: $55k → 8%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC: $83k → 11%PRINCE GEORGES CHILD RESOURCE CENTER INC: $78k → 11%NETWORK FOR VICTIM RECOVERY OF DC: $60k → 14%AYUDA: $55k → 14%AYUDA: $55k → 14%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $55k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $55k → 8%THE BARKER ADOPTION FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $60k → 8%SMYAL INC: $70k → 14%CAPITOL HILL VILLAGE: $65k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $100k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $100k → 14%THE FISHING SCHOOL: $60k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 14%CENTRONIA INC: $75k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $125k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $125k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $125k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $105k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $95k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $95k → 14%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $70k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $60k → 14%TORTURE ABOLITION AND SURVIVORS SUPPORT COALITION INTERNATIONAL: $63k → 14%OPEN ARMS HOUSING: $60k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 14%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC: $65k → 14%PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC: $65k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA INC: $183k → 14%AYUDA INC: $120k → 14%FAIR CHANCE: $115k → 14%AYUDA INC: $75k → 14%CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ADVANCEMENT: $60k → 14%CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ADVANCEMENT: $60k → 14%CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ADVANCEMENT: $60k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA INC: $85k → 14%SAMARITAN MINISTRY OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $68k → 14%FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE PARENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $60k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$102M · 524 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

524
109

Total granted

$102M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+4%

Still filing today

93%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +292%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +6%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • HT
    HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • US
    UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +3%
  • PM
    PENTAGON MEMORIAL FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $167k · revenue -74%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cityworks Dc

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…

Education
2
Dc Policy Center

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…

Public Benefit
3
Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education
4
District of Columbia Access to Justice

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Act for Alexandria

Amplify the work of our community by bringing people and resources together.

Community Improvement
6
District of Columbia College Access Program

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.

Education
7
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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8
Greater Washington Partnership

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.

Recreation & Sports
9
Wonders Early Learning Extended Day

To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.

—
10
Two Rivers Public Charter School Inc

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.

Education
11
Casa for Children of the District of Columbia

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…

Human Services
12
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

602 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. 602 of the 695 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
103
Early backer (in before they grew)
592/602
Grantees still filing
397/602
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $3,775,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR T…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,175,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,329,358 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIO…+33 more: $10,654,036 · Arts & Culture+33 moreWHC FOUNDATION 1: $1,400,000 · OtherWHC FOUNDATION 1CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $870,000 · Other+72 more: $22,727,000 · Other+72 moreEDUCATION FORWARD DC: $1,075,000 · EducationEDUCATION FORWA…The George Washington University: $495,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE: $490,000 · EducationDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $450,000 · EducationDC CHARTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $430,000 · EducationCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING: $397,500 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $368,050 · EducationAPPLETREE INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION: $362,500 · EducationONE WORLD EDUCATION: $360,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $338,500 · EducationKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $337,500 · Education+22 more: $4,942,500 · Education+22 moreWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1,125,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON A…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC: $385,000 · Human ServicesIona Senior Services: $375,000 · Human ServicesFAIR CHANCE: $365,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INC: $360,000 · Human ServicesMAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $315,000 · Human ServicesASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $315,000 · Human ServicesTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesSeabury Resources for Aging: $295,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC: $285,000 · Human Services+20 more: $4,400,300 · Human Services+20 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $1,650,000 · HealthIDENTITY INC: $605,000 · HealthLA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC: $382,500 · HealthWHITMAN-WALKER FOUNDATION INC: $370,000 · HealthMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $315,000 · HealthEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $270,000 · HealthPATHWAY HOMES INC: $252,500 · HealthPRIMARY CARE COALITION OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC: $240,000 · HealthHOME CARE PARTNERS INC: $220,000 · HealthDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $215,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC: $212,500 · HealthFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $200,000 · HealthWOODLEY HOUSE INC: $200,000 · Health+1 more: $175,000 · HealthBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $1,015,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $895,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $612,500 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $450,000 · Community ImprovementDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 · Community ImprovementDC Greens Inc: $295,000 · Community ImprovementMARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: $240,000 · Community ImprovementCAPITAL AREA ASSET BUILDING CORPORATION: $180,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,427,500 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS: $826,500 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND URBAN AFFAIRS INC: $312,500 · PhilanthropyIMPACT SILVER SPRING: $230,000 · PhilanthropySPUR LOCAL INC: $180,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$17,933,394Other$24,997,000Education$10,046,550Human Services$8,520,300Health$5,307,500Community Improvement$3,987,500Philanthropy$3,976,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $3,775,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,427,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $1,650,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,329,358 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1,125,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetEDUCATION FORWARD DC: $1,075,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $1,015,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $895,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $870,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS: $826,500 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetRock Creek Conservancy Inc: $825,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $740,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $738,334 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetDREAMING OUT LOUD INC: $690,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetMANNA INC: $670,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $620,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $612,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $612,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetIDENTITY INC: $605,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC: $570,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetCASA INC: $540,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $539,999 over 3y, 11% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $510,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBLAIR HOUSE FOUNDATION: $502,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $500,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $500,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetThe George Washington University: $495,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $491,666 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $490,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc: $486,666 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetWILLIAM WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS AND HEALING: $484,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetJUBILEE HOUSING INC: $478,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetOLNEY THEATRE CORPORATION INC: $475,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $470,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $450,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $450,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $450,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDC CHARTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $430,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetCoalition for Nonprofit Housing and: $430,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $430,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $415,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INSPIRED TEACHING: $397,500 over 5y, 34% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC: $395,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC: $385,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $382,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC: $382,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLEVINE MUSIC INC: $375,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…Greater Washington Co…United Way of the Nat…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…Dimick Foundation Joh…William S Abell Found…John Edward Fowler Me…Clark Charitable Foun…Venable Foundation IncNora Roberts Foundati…Corina Higginson Trus…
Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings CompanyVA261.5× affinity159 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
97report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 695 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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