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Carrington Family Foundation at a glance

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Carrington Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$800k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$498k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $238k
  • $250k+1 grant · $498k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Patrick Henry Family Services: $2k → 8%Elizabeth's Early Learning Center: $5k → 8%Elizabeth's Early Learning Center: $5k → 8%Elizabeth's Early Learning Center: $2k → 8%Westminster Canterbury Foundation: $1k → 8%Friends of Bedford Hospice House: $2k → 8%Friends of Bedford Hospice House: $2k → 8%Friends of Bedford Hospice House: $1k → 8%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $474k → 13%YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $238k → 13%YMCA of Central Virginia: $5k → 13%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

VT
IA
OH
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
NC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 46 repeat orgs$595k to everyone else

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

46
13

Total granted

$2.0M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+231%

Still filing today

59%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • YO
    YWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA
    3× · 2018–2023 · $716k · revenue +11% · 25% of their budget
  • JF
    JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    4× · 2017–2022 · $489k · revenue +184% · 65% of their budget
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • IH
    Immaculate Heart High & Middle School
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • JF
    Jamerson Family YMCA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • EC
    Eckerd College
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +20%
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
Virginia Lutheran Homes Inc

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

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2
Lynchburg Covenant Fellowship Incorporated

Provision of safe and affordable housing.

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3
Lynchburg Baptist Retirement Community Llc

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

Housing & Shelter
4
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
5
Lycoming County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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

Animals
6
The Child Care and Learning Center

The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.

Education
7
Disability Law Center of 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…

Human Services
8
Lynchburg Area Center for Independent Living Inc

Provide services to individuals with disabilities to enable them to become fully integrated into society and achieve personal independence.

Human Services
9
The Virginia Home

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…

Health
10
Legal Aid of West Virginia Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
12
Virginia Home for Boys and Girls Foundation

Exclusively supports the charitable and educational purposes of the virginia home for boys and girls.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 64 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
26/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE FUND: $497,500 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FUNDUniversity of Virginia: $262,500 · OtherUniversity of VirginiaVirginia Athletic Foundation: $64,600 · Other+42 more: $409,113 · Other+42 moreYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $716,102 · Human ServicesYWCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIAAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its…+4 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $488,602 · Recreation & SportsJUBILEE FAMILY DEVELO…+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsCIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationEckerd College: $5,000 · EducationBlue Ridge Montessori Inc: $4,000 · EducationGREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,500 · PhilanthropyLYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $14,000 · AnimalsBROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC: $9,000 · AnimalsGREATER LYNCHBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterMIRIAM'S HOUSE INC: $4,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,233,713Human Services$786,102Recreation & Sports$489,602Education$54,000Philanthropy$30,500Animals$23,000Housing & Shelter$19,000

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

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 budgetGREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,500 over 3y, 0.4% 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
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 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 GLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds CIRQUE LODGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG ↗
  • Who funds LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETH'S EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMAZEMENT SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' HAVEN A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds LIVING BREAD MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BROOK HILL RETIREMENT CENTER FOR HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA 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.

Greater Lynchburg Com…The Al Stroobants Fou…Centra Health IncSchewel Charitable Fo…Easley Char Irr Tua 5…Valentine Family Foun…Foster FoundationThe Harry D Forsyth F…M4k Lynchburg IncKva FoundationCentra Health Foundat…Retail Merchants Foun…
Greater Lynchburg Community FoundationVA49.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 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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