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Carr Family Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION | $50,500 |
| BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ST JOHN'S METHODIST CHURC | $20,000 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| VALLEY MISSION | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CBR | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AUGUSTA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEW DIRECTION CENTER | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WSA | $5,000 |
| COVENANT SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| EDWARD VIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC | $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 (FY17–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 +70% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- VMVALLEY MISSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +118%
- NDNEW DIRECTIONS CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +33%
- THTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +156% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- UWUNITED WAY GREATER AUGUSTAone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SDSTUARTS DRAFT HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Care and placement of unwanted animals on the eastern shore of virginia servicing accomack and northampton counties. providing temporary lodging and care to animals until placed while encouraging spaying and neutering.
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
We build and restore homes, lives and communities through faith.
United way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance common good. the united way of virginia's eastern shore is a local volunteer organization established in 1991 by business people and…
Virginia Voice is a non-profit audio reading and information service for individuals who are unable to read for themselves because of blindness, low vision, or other disabilities.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Vcpp operates wrir 97.3 lpfm, a community low power fm radio station serving citizens of the city of richmond, virginia, and surrounding counties. the station covers a listening area of approximately 5-7 miles. wrir broadcasts news, views…
Promote, expand and develop tourism opportunities in the southwest virginia counties of buchanan, dickenson, lee, russell, scott, tazewell, wise and city of norton
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.
Providing food to persons living in poverty
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Hunters Who Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition. 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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 55 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 VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF STAUNTON AUGUSTA COUNTY & WAYNESBORO INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HUNTERS WHO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TALKING BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC STAUNTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE STUART HALL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA REGIONAL SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds CROZET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL 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: Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Carr Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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