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Carney Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWEST YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $45,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $31,000 |
| PAUL VI CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ALL IN FOR MILLER | $12,500 |
| COUCH MUSIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| OPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE NORTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC | $10,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TRAILBLAZERS | $10,000 |
| LIFE WITH CANCER | $6,040 |
| CENTERVILLE HS WILDCAT ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $6,000 |
| SIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GMU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CAMPS OF PITTSBURGH INC | $5,000 |
| EAGLE RANCH | $5,000 |
| SERGE GLOBAL INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $553k · revenue +59%
- GMGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +37%
- OROPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $107k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- TETHE ELIZABETH ANN HEALY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +112%
EMMANUEL COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +18%- HHHIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
In response to God's love, grace, and truth, the purpose (mission) of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA is to establish and advance at colleges and universities witnessing communities of students and faculty who follow Jesus as Savior…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Christian movement dedicated to presenting Jesus Christ personally to this generation
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
To support christian ministries throughout the world
Training pastors, growing churches, and transforming communities for christ.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Rebecca Alt Lanhardt Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 72 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TRAILBLAZERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CAMPS OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds All In for Miller Inc ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds SIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bite Me Cancer Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LAMB CENTER ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Western Fairfax Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH ANN HEALY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITHWALK INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WASHINGTON DC LANGSTON GOLF COURSE ↗
- Who funds ZIMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS WORLDWIDE ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Peterson Family Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Randolph D Rouse Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · America's Charities · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Carney 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.
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 0% of income from government
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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