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Virginia · Nonprofit
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA (Virginia) is funded by 399 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $605,027,487 in grants to it, the largest being PEPSICO FOUNDATION INC ($72,018,972). 191 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 126 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 126 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
97% of CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $7.8M → $14M on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
99 of 399 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 399 funders by total. Association, not causation.
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 40% · 2019 24% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 12% · 2023 14% · 2024 17% · 2025 69% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
31% of CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 42 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 399 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
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.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
99% of spending goes to programs.
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 41 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 399funders 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. view filing