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Carrington Charitable Foundation

Ccf's objective is to work together as a community of support for recognized charitable organizations presented to ccf by the employees and associates of the carrington family of companies.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$652k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Employment$2.5MHuman Services$1.7MHealth$75kEducation$45kRecreation & Sports$25kPublic Benefit$5k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $1,103,446, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,160,446 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $57,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
  • $250k+2 grants · $952k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HONOR FOUNDATION$652,000
VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND$300,000
TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION$100,800
Special Olympics Southern California$10,000
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc$10,000
The New England Center for Children Inc$10,000
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society$7,646
National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$7,000
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $351k → 11%VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $302k → 11%VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $300k → 11%VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $300k → 11%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

ME
MN
NY
MA
CA
VA
TN
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Carrington Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Carrington Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 8 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$4.2M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPublic BenefitEmploymentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • TH
    THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +229%
  • TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $401k · revenue +2%
  • TN
    THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • GI
    GALLANTFEW INC
    one grant, 2020 · $22k · revenue +4%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +11%
  • TH
    THE HONORING THE SACRIFICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -41%
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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
10
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

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11
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
12
Veterans Medical Research Foundation of San Diego

Honoring military service with science; our bench-to-bedside approach has led to breakthroughs in areas such as shingles prevention, heart disease, metabolic diseases and ground breaking work on post-traumatic stress disorder.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation 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

15 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,489,500 · EmploymentTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INCVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $1,252,775 · Human ServicesVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMANDTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $400,800 · Public BenefitTRAVIS MILL…GALLANTFEW INC: $22,470 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,205 · Public BenefitThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $20,885 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $14,794 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,735 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $6,000 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · OtherJacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc: $5,145 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Employment$2,489,500Human Services$1,252,775Public Benefit$428,475Health$55,414Education$45,000Other$25,145Recreation & Sports$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $2,489,500 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $1,252,775 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $400,800 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALLANTFEW INC: $22,470 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $20,885 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $14,794 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,735 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HONORING THE SACRIFICE FOUNDATION: $5,205 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc: $5,145 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Carrington Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carrington Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The New England Center for Children Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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