Virginia · Nonprofit
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 766 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,064,015,871 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($102,988,393). 346 of them have funded it in more than one year. CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$2.2B
Recipients
22,666
Contributions on record
$1.1B
Donors on record
765
Payments out run 2.0x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- The Deborah Loeb Brice Foundationportfolio match
- Kusum Family Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 88 funders to 260 funders, grant income rose $16M → $174M.
108 of 766 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.4M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Charities Aid Foundation America). These are real filings, and they are not money CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA raised.
From the IRS filings of CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 766 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 44 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305M arriving through sponsors registered in 35 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 766 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 239 organizations that share your funders
- The Deborah Loeb Brice Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kusum Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 152 organizations that share your funders
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 103 organizations that share your funders
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 145 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 93 organizations that share your funders
- Cornell Universityshared fundersNY · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Tiaa Charitable Incshared fundersNC · backs 205 organizations that share your funders
- The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New Yorkshared fundersNY · backs 100 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- Department of State$60k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 41 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Southampton Row Trust Limited · disregarded
- Charities Aid Foundation Canada · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA (Virginia) receives grants from 766 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,064,015,871 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($102,988,393). 346 of them have funded it in more than one year. CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 766 organizations giving $1,064,015,871 in grants to CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA, 346 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA?
- Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $102,988,393 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 766funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing