Funding search · EIN 431634280 · Alexandria, VA

Charities Aid Foundation America

Name: Charities Aid Foundation America grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

40,091
grants reported: $1.65B
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $11,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Disaster relief and humanitarian response through Red Cross, GlobalGiving, HALO Trust
Hunger relief: Feeding America, Global FoodBanking, regional food banks, medically tailored meals
United Way and community funds in corporate headquarters metros (Milwaukee, St. Louis, Twin Cities, Dallas, Cincinnati)
Education access: HBCU funds, scholarship intermediaries, STEM and youth programs
Health research and patient support: Leukemia & Lymphoma, St. Jude, ACS, Alex's Lemonade
Conservation and land: Nature Conservancy, Arbor Day, Soil Health Institute

Typical grant

The median grant is $11,000 and half of all grants land between $7,500 and $23,948, so the overwhelming majority of the 40,091 payments are small pass-through gifts. The seven-figure checks go almost entirely to national intermediaries and household-name charities (Red Cross at $12.6M, Feeding America at $7.1M, Nature Conservancy at $6.3M) plus a handful of place-based United Ways. Repeat giving is common in name but tracks whichever donor is funding it, not a foundation renewal cycle.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“"CHARITABLE DONATION"”
“"UNITED WAY OF"”
“"CHARITABLE GIFT FUND"”
“"FOUNDATION"”
“"FOOD BANK"”

Positioning adjacent work

Treat this as a donor-advised intermediary. Cultivate the corporate or individual donor, not CAF America staff.
If your work is international, emphasize that CAF America already handles cross-border validation for donors funding overseas grantees.
Map your work to employee giving in Milwaukee, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Dallas, or Cincinnati, where dollars concentrate.
Size an initial ask at $10,000 to $25,000, matching the middle half of their grant volume.

Worth knowing: CAF America is a regranting intermediary, not a foundation with independent priorities: 24,713 recipients across four years and a uniform "CHARITABLE DONATION" purpose field mean the money follows donor instructions, so the giving record reflects their donors' interests rather than a strategy you can pitch. Geographic concentration in CA, NY, TX, IL and FL follows population, but the seven-figure clusters in Milwaukee, St. Louis and Minneapolis point to specific corporate donors behind them.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (US) Ltd3 grants · $91.7M
Flexportorg3 grants · $33.7M
American National Red Cross10 grants · $21.3M
Colgate University4 grants · $12.0M
President and Fellows of Harvard College4 grants · $12.0M
Greater Twin Cities United Way6 grants · $10.5M
Feeding America10 grants · $10.3M
Article Grouporg5 grants · $9.0M
Habitat for Humanity International29 grants · $8.7M
Thurgood Marshall College Fund4 grants · $8.2M

Giving over time

$246.8M

2021

$390.9M

2022

$464.2M

2023

$550.8M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 40,091 grants.

$42.0M
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (US) Ltd · New York, NY · 2022
Charitable donation
$29.7M
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (US) Ltd · New York, NY · 2021
Charitable donation
$20.0M
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (US) Ltd · New York, NY · 2023
Charitable donation
$17.4M
Flexportorg · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Charitable donation
$14.7M
Flexportorg · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Charitable donation
$12.6M
American National Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable donation
$11.6M
Colgate University · Hamilton, NY · 2023
Charitable donation
$7.1M
American Red Cross Serving Alaska · Anchorage, AK · 2023
Charitable donation
$7.1M
Feeding America · Chicago, IL · 2024
Charitable donation
$6.3M
Nature Conservancy · Arlington, VA · 2024
Charitable donation
$5.8M
Globalgiving Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable donation
$5.6M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Charitable donation
$4.6M
American National Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2022
Charitable donation
$4.3M
Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Washington, DC · 2023
Charitable donation
$4.1M
Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Charitable donation
$3.7M
Thurgood Marshall College Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable donation
$3.6M
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society · Somers, NY · 2024
Charitable donation
$3.6M
Illinois State University Foundatio · Normal, IL · 2024
Charitable donation
$3.5M
United Negro College Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable donation
$3.5M
The Halo Trust (USA) · Washington, DC · 2023
Charitable donation
$3.5M
Habitat for Humanity International · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2023
Charitable donation
$3.4M
Global Foodbanking Network · Monroe, IL · 2024
Charitable donation
$3.3M
National Arbor Day Foundation · Detroit, NE · 2024
Charitable donation
$3.2M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Charitable donation
$3.1M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Charitable donation
$3.1M
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2024
Charitable donation
$3.1M
Pyxera Global · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.9M
Habitat for Humanity International · Bainbridge, GA · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.9M
National Volunteer Fire Council · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.9M
Amherst College Trustees · Amherst, MA · 2021
Charitable donation
$2.8M
Great Rivers Greenway Foundation · Bessemer, MO · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.7M
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas I · Dallas, TX · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.6M
Article Grouporg · New York, NY · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.6M
Center for Expanding Leadership and · Chicago, IL · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.6M
Barack Obama Foundation (the) · Chicago, IL · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.6M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund 1 · Boston, MA · 2022
Charitable donation
$2.5M
Local Initiatives Support Corporati · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.5M
The Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.5M
Girls Incorporated · Oakland, NY · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.5M
National Network To End Domestic Vi · Middleton, DC · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.5M
Parents As Teachers National Center · North Hollywood, MO · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.5M
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas · Dallas, TX · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.4M
Thurgood Marshall College Fund · Washington, DC · 2021
Charitable donation
$2.4M
Article Grouporg · New York, NY · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.3M
Clooney Foundation for Justice · Studio City, CA · 2021
Charitable donation
$2.3M
The Board and Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.2M
Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
Charitable donation
$2.2M
Article Grouporg · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Charitable donation
$2.2M
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & W · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.1M
Givedirectly · New York, NY · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.1M
Amherst College Trustees · Amherst, MA · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.1M
St Jude'S Children'S Hospital · Memphis, TN · 2022
Charitable donation
$2.1M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund 1 · Boston, MA · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.1M
National Fire Protection Association · Quincy, MA · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.1M
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2022
Charitable donation
$2.1M
Thurgood Marshall College Fund · New York, NY · 2022
Charitable donation
$2.1M
Local Initiatives Support Corporation · St Paul, MN · 2021
Charitable donation
$2.0M
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2022
Charitable donation
$2.0M
Thurgood Marshall College Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.0M
Cleveland State University Alumni Association · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.0M
Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.0M
Alamo Colleges Foundation · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Charitable donation
$2.0M
The Halo Trust (USA) · Washington, DC · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.0M
President and Fellows of Harvard University · Boston, MA · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.0M
American Friends of Magen David Adom · New York, NY · 2023
Charitable donation
$2.0M
Emergency Assistance Foundation · Richardson, TX · 2024
Charitable donation
$2.0M
United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
Charitable donation
$1.9M
Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minneapolis, MN · 2021
Charitable donation
$1.9M
Seriousfun Children'S Network · Norwalk, CT · 2023
Charitable donation
$1.9M
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation · Haverford, PA · 2024
Charitable donation
$1.8M
E4e Relief · Charlotte, NC · 2022
Charitable donation
$1.8M
Clooney Foundation for Justice · New York, NY · 2023
Charitable donation
$1.8M
University of Texas Health Science Center · San Antonio, TX · 2023
Charitable donation
$1.8M
American National Red Cross · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021
Charitable donation
$1.7M
Article Grouporg · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Charitable donation
$1.7M
Junior Achievement USA · Eau Claire, WI · 2024
Charitable donation
$1.7M
American Heart Association · Dallas, TX · 2024
Charitable donation
$1.7M
Serious Fun Childrens Network · Norwalk, CT · 2022
Charitable donation
$1.6M
Trustees of Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2021
Charitable donation
$1.6M
American Cancer Society · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Charitable donation
$1.6M
Flexportorg · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Charitable donation
$1.6M
The Verto Fund · Portland, OR · 2022
Charitable donation
$1.6M
United Way of San Antonio & Bexar County · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Charitable donation
$1.5M
Ja Worldwide · Boston, MA · 2021
Charitable donation
$1.5M
Caf America · Alexandria, VA · 2022
Charitable donation
$1.5M
Unidosus · Washington, DC · 2023
Charitable donation
$1.5M
Conservation International Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2022
Charitable donation
$1.5M
Superhumans Ukraine · Trenton, NJ · 2024
Charitable donation
$1.5M
Unidosus · Washington, DC · 2021
Charitable donation
$1.5M
National Fire Protection Associatio · Indianapolis, MA · 2024
Charitable donation
$1.5M
The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charleston, SC · 2023
Charitable donation
$1.5M
Alzheimer'S Disease & Related · Chicago, IL · 2024
Charitable donation
$1.5M
Saint Paul Public Schools Isd #625 · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Charitable donation
$1.4M
American Heart Association · Anchorage, AK · 2023
Charitable donation
$1.4M
Make-a-Wish Foundation of America · Phoenix, AZ · 2021
Charitable donation
$1.4M
Doctors Without Borders USA · New York, NY · 2023
Charitable donation
$1.4M
St Jude Children'S Research Hospital · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
Charitable donation
$1.4M
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations · New York, NY · 2021
Charitable donation
$1.4M
National Arbor Day Foundation · Lincoln, NE · 2023
Charitable donation
$1.4M
University of Illinois Foundation · Champaign, IL · 2023
Charitable donation

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.