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Carter C Chinnis Charitable Trust at a glance

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Carter C Chinnis Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$433kEducation$255kEnvironment$208kFood & Nutrition$60kHealth$42k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$993k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Muse Writers Center$50,000
Tupelo Press$40,000
Tupelo Press$40,000
The Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore$25,000
The Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc$25,000
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc$25,000
Healthy Harvest Food Bank$25,000
Healthy Harvest Food Bank$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Canyon Ranch Institute: $35k → 15%Tupelo Press: $40k → 12%Health Impact: $5k → 10%The Pushcart Prize Fellowships Inc: $25k → 7%Ducks Unlimited: $200k → 17%Duke University: $50k → 11%The Buff Foundation: $3k → 10%Steamboat ERA Museum: $25k → 14%Healthy Harvest Food Bank: $25k → 16%The Muse Writers Center: $50k → 19%Chesapeake Bay Foundation: $3k → 6%Tupelo Press: $40k → 12%Duke University: $40k → 11%Steamboat ERA Museum: $25k → 14%Healthy Harvest Food Bank: $10k → 16%The Muse Writers Center: $5k → 19%Duke University: $40k → 11%Historic Christ Church & Museum: $3k → 14%Northern Neck Land Conservancy: $5k → 16%The Muse Writers Center: $3k → 19%Duke University: $35k → 11%Steamboat ERA Museum: $3k → 14%The Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore: $25k → 19%Duke University: $35k → 11%Duke University: $30k → 11%Duke University: $25k → 11%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.
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$570k · 4 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$570k
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+98%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +51%
  • TM
    THE MUSE WRITERS CENTER
    3× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +73%
  • SE
    STEAMBOAT ERA MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $53k · revenue +125% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +99%
  • CR
    Canyon Ranch Institute
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • NM
    NATIONAL MODEL RAILROAD ASSOC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +87%
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
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc

The mission of the chesapeake bay maritime museum cbmm is to preserve and explore the history, environment, and people of the chesapeake bay. the vision of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to be the premier see sched o

Arts & Culture
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Virginia Environmental Endowment

The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…

Environment
4
Virginia Living Museum Inc

The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…

Arts & Culture
5
James River Association

The mission of the james river association is to be guardian of the james river. we provide a voice for the river and take action to promote conservation and responsible stewardship of its natural resources.

Environment
6
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
7
Virginia Association of Museums

The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".

Arts & Culture
8
Bay Journal Media Inc

Bay-journal media is a non-profit whose mission is to expand independent, unbiased reporting that informs the public about environmental issues affecting the chesapeake bay and which inspires effective action to restore, protect, and…

Environment
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
10
Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment
11
Chesapeake Bay Trust

Chesapeake bay trust is a public, nonprofit grant-making organization created to promote public awareness of and participation in the restoration and protection of the chesapeake bay and its tributaries. (see schedule o for continuation)…

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12
Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

The health and environmental sciences institute (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Buff Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $255,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE MUSE WRITERS CENTER: $57,500 · EducationTHE MUSE WRITERS CENTERJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $205,000 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION IN…STEAMBOAT ERA MUSEUM INC: $52,500 · Arts & CultureSTEAMBOAT ERA MUSEUM INCTHE PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIP INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIP IN…Ducks Unlimited Inc: $200,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc+3 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentTupelo Press: $80,000 · OtherTupelo PressCanyon Ranch Institute: $35,000 · OtherCanyon Ranch I…NATIONAL MODEL RAILROAD ASSOC INC: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL MODEL…+1 more: $2,500 · OtherHEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $25,000 · Food & NutritionHealthImpact: $4,950 · Health
Education$312,500Arts & Culture$282,500Environment$210,000Other$127,500Food & Nutrition$60,000Health$4,950

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 budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $255,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $205,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSE WRITERS CENTER: $57,500 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetSTEAMBOAT ERA MUSEUM INC: $52,500 over 3y, 30% of budgetHEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PUSHCART PRIZE FELLOWSHIP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MODEL RAILROAD ASSOC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHERN NECK LAND CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHealthImpact: $4,950 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUFF FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 18% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Carter C Chinnis Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carter C Chinnis Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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