How much did CARLYLE ADAMS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of CARLYLE ADAMS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

—

2021

marine

2022

marine

2023

park

2024

park

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $56k
$10k–50k12 grants · $265k
$50k–250k5 grants · $487k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

NC MUSEUM OF ART$210,000
WILL & DENI MCINTYRE FOUNDATION$100,000
CATERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN$77,000
NC COASTAL FEDERATION$50,000
ST MARY'S SCHOOL$50,000
PINE CONE FOUNDATION$32,500
NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION$26,000
CORE SOUND WATERFOWL MUSEUM$25,000
DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY$25,000
NC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE$25,000
HELPING HORSE INC$25,000
ARISE COLLECTIVE$25,000
ARTSPLOSURE$20,000
NC ZOO SOCIETY$20,000
CAMP SEA GULLYMCA OF THE TRIANGLE$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.6M · 24 repeat orgs$446k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +127% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+127%

-4%

Still filing today

38%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsAnimalsEducationOther

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

DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY
6× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +451%
WD
WILL & DENI MCINTYRE FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $237k · revenue +53% · 25% of their budget
NC
NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION
3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +392%

Funded once

SM
SAINT MARY'S SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $25k
UH
UNC HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $25k
NM
NC MUSEUM OF ART - ARTS KIDS INITIATIVE
one grant, 2020 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Caldwell Arts Council Inc

To promote the arts in caldwell co., nc

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Arts North Carolina Inc

To support the cultural arts programs of its members by providing educational information as well as conferences and workshops.

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North Carolina Museum of Life &

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

Arts & Culture

Three Rivers Land Trust Inc

Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland

Environment

North Carolina Horse Council

To represent and promote all aspects of the horse industry in nc

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North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation

The north carolina museum of art highlights the following programming, exhibition and initiatives; in the last year the museum added 41 works of art with expansions in the american collection, contemporary acquisitions and african art.…

Arts & Culture

Toxic Free North Carolina Inc

We engage north carolina in initiatives that advance environmental health and justice by advocating for safe alternatives to harmful pesticides and chemicals.

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Rockingham County Historical Society Museum and Archives

The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina

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Carolina Raptor Center Inc

Environmental stewardship, education, research, and rehabilitation of injured birds of prey

Animals

Muse Winston-Salem

To preserve the dynamic history of the winston-salem and forsyth county, north carolina community through engaging exhibits and thought-provoking programming. plans are underway for a new permanent museum in winston- salem, nc.

Philanthropy

Chamber Music Raleigh Inc

To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…

Arts & Culture

Equality Nc

Securing equality and justice for lgbtq north carolinians.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Coastal Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Junior Appalachian Musicians Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

11/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,153,464Arts & Culture$465,500Recreation & Sports$275,000Animals$37,000Education$32,500Philanthropy$30,000Public Safety & Disaster$27,500

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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation CARLYLE ADAMS FOUNDATION 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PINE CONE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 473256932 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PINE CONE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 72% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Carlyle Adams Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carlyle Adams Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CARLYLE ADAMS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carlyle Adams Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CARLYLE ADAMS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carlyle Adams Foundation?

More from the funding graph