· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| VALLEY MISSION | $15,000 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| NEW DIRECTION CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AUGUSTA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CBR | $10,000 |
| HUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| COVENANT SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WSA | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VMVALLEY MISSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +118%
- THTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +156% · 48% of their budget
- NDNEW DIRECTIONS CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- UWUNITED WAY GREATER AUGUSTAone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SDSTUARTS DRAFT HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS CENTER 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 THE STUART HALL SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC STAUNTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAS HOUSE ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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