How much did CARRINGTON FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of CARRINGTON FAMILY 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

jamesgreater lynchburgbreadboys girlsblue ridge

2019

lynchburgboys girls

2020

boys girlslynchburg

2021

greater lynchburgbread

2022

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2023

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

03FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k3 grants · $58k
$50k–250k1 grant · $238k
$250k+1 grant · $498k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND$497,500
YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA$237,500
DIVIDED SKY RESIDENTIAL RECOVERY FOUNDATION$25,000
JUBILEE FAMILY CENTER$17,913
CIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATION$15,000
University of Virginia$7,500

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 (FY17–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 11%. 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.0M · 46 repeat orgs$620k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 44 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+18%

Still filing today

35%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $555k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalOther

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

JF
Jubilee Family Development Center
4× · 2017–2022 · $489k · revenue +61% · 65% of their budget
JR
James River Day School
3× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +21%
MO
Meals on Wheels
5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +171%

Funded once

UO
University of Lynchburg
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -17%
IH
Immaculate Heart High & Middle School
one grant, 2022 · $5k
JF
Jamerson Family YMCA
one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

Lynchburg City Schools Education

Advancing excellence and equity in the lynchburg city schools through advocacy and educational funding.

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Lynchburg Regional

Serve to strengthen our member businesses and stimulate regional prosperity

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Miller Home of Lynchburg Virginia

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Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.

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Lynchburg Baptist

To provide "dignity in living" for senior adults who reside in this planned services community.

Housing & Shelter

Lynchburg Covenant Fellowship Incorporated

Provision of safe and affordable housing.

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Lycoming County Society for

Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.

Animals

Lutheran Family Services of Virginia Inc

At encircle, we are guided by our vision that all people in our communities will receive the support they need to live abundant lives. our more than 600 staff and caregivers support children, adults and families, and our services are open…

Human Services

University of Virginia Law School

The primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds to benefit the uva law school.

Education

Lynn Community Health Inc

To provide comprehensive healthcare of the highest quality for everyone in the greater lynn community regardless of ability to pay.

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The Child Care and Learning Center

Child learning/daycare facility for the benefit and welfare of rappahannock county, virginia children.

Education

Liberty Justice Center

To use strategic litigation to advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Amazement Square. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/24

the rest of the field

10%

131/1,330

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.

05the grantee network

23 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)

23/23

Grantees still filing

16/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,052,315Recreation & Sports$489,602Education$35,000Food & Nutrition$17,000International$15,000Animals$14,000Human Services$13,000

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.

Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA37.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Kva Foundation · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Foster Foundation · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Valentine Family Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Baird Foundation 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 organisation CARRINGTON 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: Jubilee Family Development Center.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +61% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 541881948 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 Jubilee Family Development Center, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 65% 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 Carrington Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carrington Family 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.

CARRINGTON FAMILY 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

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carrington Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CARRINGTON FAMILY 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

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carrington Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph