· Private foundation
Carrington Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–23, $736k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +62% since the first grant, against +20% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $555k 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
- YOYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA3× · 2018–2023 · $716k · revenue +11% · 25% of their budget
- JFJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER4× · 2017–2022 · $489k · revenue +184% · 65% of their budget
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IHImmaculate Heart High & Middle Schoolone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SJSt Judes Children's Research Hospitalone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ECEckerd Collegeone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +20%
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.
Providing life-enriching services that promote well-being and build community.
Provision of safe and affordable housing.
To provide "dignity in living" for senior adults who reside in this planned services community.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.
The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.
Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…
Provide services to individuals with disabilities to enable them to become fully integrated into society and achieve personal independence.
The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…
To advocate for low-income, vulnerable west virginians seeking equal access to justice and create system change in order to improve client safety, health, housing, income, and access to resources.
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Exclusively supports the charitable and educational purposes of the virginia home for boys and girls.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Living Bread Ministries. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 64 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 YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LYNCHBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG ↗
- Who funds AMAZEMENT SQUARE ↗
- Who funds KIDS' HAVEN A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING BREAD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA 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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Valentine Family Foundation · Foster Foundation · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · M4k Lynchburg Inc · Kva Foundation · Centra Health Foundation · Retail Merchants Foundation- Ima 41-7022592
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 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.
- Eckerd College — 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.