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Anne M Cabaniss Charitable Trust at a glance

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Anne M Cabaniss Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$550k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Public Benefit$925kAnimals$585kArts & Culture$520kEducation$495kSocial Science$250kCivil Rights$125kReligion$100kEnvironment$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT E LEE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION$100,000
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$100,000
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA$100,000
BECKET FUND$50,000
ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER$50,000
THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES$25,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND LETTERS INC$25,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$25,000
ACADEMIC FREEDOM ALLIANCE$25,000
ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF ALEXANDRIA$25,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$20,000
RAPPAHANNOCK BENEVOLENT FUND INC$5,000
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 (FY23–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%RAPPAHANNOCK BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $10k → 10%RAPPAHANNOCK BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $5k → 10%RAPPAHANNOCK BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $5k → 10%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

MI
NJ
VA
DE
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 10 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$2.9M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+7%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalAnimalsArts & CultureSocial SciencePublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AW
    Animal Welfare League of Alexandria
    7× · 2018–2025 · $570k · revenue +71%
  • SH
    STRATFORD HALL
    6× · 2018–2025 · $520k · revenue +6%
  • TB
    The Becket Fund
    3× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDS
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • IT
    Interparliamentary Task Force on Human Trafficking
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · 35% of their budget
  • PS
    Project Suma Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +7%
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
Alumni Free Speech Alliance

The Alumni Free Speech Alliance brings together alumni groups that support free speech academic freedom and viewpoint diversity at their colleges and universities. Alliance members believe that free speech academic freedom and viewpoint…

Education
2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
3
The Conversationalist
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4
The Law & Humanities Institute
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5
Institute for Humane Studies

The Institute discovers, develops, and supports students, scholars, and other intellectuals who maintain the highest standard of academic excellence and who share an interest in the principles of the classical liberal tradition.

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6
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…

Social Science
9
American Society of International Law

To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.

International
10
National Academy of Public Administration

The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non partisan Organization established in 1967 and chartered by Congress in 1984. See Schedule O

Public Benefit
11
American Spectator Foundation Inc

The American Spectator Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan media organization responsible for publishing The American Spectator. Through its editorial programs, The American Spectator strives to educate the public on new ideas,…

Education
12
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Interparliamentary Task Force on Human Trafficking. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA: $875,000 · OtherCITY OF BIRMINGHAM ALABAMATRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYYoung America's Foundation: $125,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDS: $100,000 · OtherST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDSTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $50,000 · Other+2 more: $45,000 · OtherAnimal Welfare League of Alexandria: $570,100 · AnimalsAnimal Welfare Leagu…+1 more: $15,000 · AnimalsSTRATFORD HALL: $520,100 · Arts & CultureSTRATFORD HALLThe Becket Fund: $175,000 · Social ScienceETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $150,000 · Public BenefitHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $120,000 · EducationAmerican Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc: $25,000 · EducationTHE WESTMINSTER INSTITUTE: $75,000 · InternationalInterparliamentary Task Force on Human Trafficking: $25,000 · InternationalProject Suma Inc: $25,000 · International
Other$1,495,000Animals$585,100Arts & Culture$520,100Social Science$175,000Public Benefit$150,000Education$145,000International$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnimal Welfare League of Alexandria: $570,100 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL: $520,100 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $175,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTMINSTER INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAcademic Freedom Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetInterparliamentary Task Force on Human Trafficking: $25,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetProject Suma Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetRAPPAHANNOCK BENEVOLENT FUND INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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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 Anne M Cabaniss Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne M Cabaniss Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 17 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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