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Amory S Carhart Memorial Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAUQUIER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK & THRIFT STORE | $1,000 |
| FAUQUIER SPCA | $1,000 |
| MFHA HUNT STAFF BENEFIT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| VIRGINIA POINT TO POINT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WARRENTON VOLUNTEER FIRE CO | $1,000 |
| BRANDY STATION VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| GREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION | $750 |
| LITTLE FORK EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $600 |
| FAUQUIER COPS FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
| LAILA ROSE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| LAUREL RIDGE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| LITTLE FORK VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE | $500 |
| NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 90% of your 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- LFLITTLE FORK VOLUNTEER FIRE AND8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +22%
- FSFAUQUIER SPCA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +95%
- HSHunt Staff Benefit Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- FFFoundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetownone grant, 2018 · $700 · revenue +20%
- SJST JOHN EVANGALIST CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $500
- TWTC WILLIAMS YOUTH SPORT CAMPS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $300
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.
The virginia gold cup association was organized in 1923 to stimulate interest in and to promote steeplechase racing in virginia. the association strives to provide an environment for social recreation, where observers can enjoy the…
To serve the community as a volunteer fire department.
The old dominion conservation and educational foundation supports fox chasing, education, and open space preservation in the old dominion hunt territory of virginia's fauquier and rappahannock counties.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
Fire and rescue services
Fire prevention and protection in bluemont and surrounding areas
Vfa promotes stewardship and wise use of the commonwealth's forest resources for the economic and environmental benefits of all virginians.
We are focused on, and a resource for, the business, government and community interests of local businesses in and around fauquier county, virginia.
Provide free non-medical services to the public.
Provide fire and rescue services to the area of fairfax county, va that is in and around mclean, va
Fnfsr is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the purity, beauty and natural flow of the north fork of the shenandoah river and its tributaries and watershed.
The association was organized to keep members informed of current events and regulations affecting the petroleum and convenience store industries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Meadow Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hunt Staff Benefit Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 30 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
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 THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FAUQUIER INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FORK VOLUNTEER FIRE AND ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds Hunt Staff Benefit Foundation ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA POINT TO POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK & THRIFT STORE ↗
- Who funds Culpeper County Rescue Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Laila Rose Foundation ↗
- Who funds Brandy Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRENTON ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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: Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · Wise Foundation · The Seilheimer Foundation · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Margaret Spilman Bowden Foundation · Naylor Family Foundation · Dun Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Amory S Carhart Memorial Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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