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Cars for Charity Inc
The purpose of cars for charity is to act as the enabling entity for hundreds of tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, located within the united states, to undertake and benefit from a "vehicle donation" fundraising program.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $379k
- $10k–50k65 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $569,494 |
| MISC SMALL GRANTS 5000 | $379,554 |
| WAMU | $291,184 |
| KQED | $186,750 |
| WSHU PUBLIC RADIO | $166,733 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $144,352 |
| WDET | $127,691 |
| KUOW | $103,702 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO | $81,249 |
| KCLU | $76,668 |
| CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING - W | $71,427 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $67,527 |
| COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO | $61,165 |
| VPM | $55,513 |
| MAINE PUBLIC | $55,438 |
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, $402k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
138 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $705k 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
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +2%
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $953k · revenue +6%
- SHSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED5× · 2020–2024 · $775k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- WWAMUone grant, 2021 · $103k
- MRMICHIGAN RADIOone grant, 2022 · $59k
- PMPUBLIC MEDIA NJ INCone grant, 2022 · $39k · revenue -1%
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
To serve audiences as a distinctive content source for information, insights and cultural experiences essential to living in our diverse, interconnected world.
Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.
Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.
To perform activities that provide economies of scale and coordination of related companies in a manner that best accomplishes the exempt purposes of its supported 501(c)(3) organizations minnesota public radio (mpr) and southern…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of hawai'i public radio is to serve the people of hawai'i by informing with essential news, inspiring through the power of music and the arts, and connecting through conversations and convenings.
National association of broadcasters (nab) advances the interest of radio and television broadcasters in federal government, industry and public affairs; improves the quality of broadcasting, and encourages technological innovation and…
Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Public Media Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
219 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. 219 of the 313 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE PUBLIC MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds Alabama Education Television Foundation Authority ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC ↗
- Who funds APT Foundation ↗
- Who funds OTHERS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds VPM MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
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: Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Colorado Gives Foundation · National Public Radio Inc · The Groundtruth Project Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Public Broadcasting Service · Rose Community Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation
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 Cars for Charity Inc 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Delaware Public Media Corporation — 11% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Diocese of Metuchen — 3% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.
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