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Carrington Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$800k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
6
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$497,500
Organizations funded a year
5 to 48
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
5
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Carrington Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20236$800k67%
FY20225$1.2M60%
FY202125$101k12%
FY202012$30k8%
FY20199$26k0%
FY201848$223k8%
FY201748$213kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$1.3MPhilanthropy$548kEducation$340kHealth$112kRecreation & Sports$71kHousing & Shelter$59kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kFood & Nutrition$42kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IA
OH
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
NC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Carrington Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA of Central Virginia: $716,102 over 3y, 25% of budgetJubilee Family Development Center: $488,602 over 4y, 65% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJames River Day School Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLynchburg Daily Bread Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGreater Lynchburg Habitat for Humanity Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGleaning for the World Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCirque Lodge Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Lynchburg: $14,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLynchburg Humane Society Inc: $14,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetElizabeth's Early Learning Center Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHarvard-Westlake School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Lynchburg: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Virginia Health Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmazement Square: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKids' Haven a Center for Grieving Children: $9,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetLiving Bread Ministries: $9,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBrook Hill Retirement Center for Horses Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBlue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCasa of Central Virginia Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBedford Hospice House Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetEckerd College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Montessori Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMiriam's House Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Legal Aid Society Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOpera on the James: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPatrick Henry Family Services Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Awareness Garden Foundationinc: $1,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWestminster Canterbury Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA49.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Carrington Family Foundation

How much does Carrington Family Foundation give?
Carrington Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $800,413 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Carrington Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Philanthropy (21%), Education (13%).
Who are Carrington Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: YWCA of Central Virginia ($716k), Jubilee Family Development Center ($489k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($50k).
Does Carrington Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carrington Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carrington Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, The Al Stroobants Foundation, Centra Health Inc.
Where is Carrington Family Foundation based?
Carrington Family Foundation is based in VA.

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 64 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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