· Private foundation
Carter Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $277k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON | $75,000 |
| BECKLEY CONVENTION CENTER | $67,320 |
| RALEIGH COUNTY VETERANS ASSOCIATION | $51,050 |
| WV PROFESSIONAL DANCE COMPANY | $42,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN WV | $25,300 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| CONCORD UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON- BECKLEY | $25,000 |
| BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FOLK FEED OUIR LOCAL KIDS | $20,000 |
| WV WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| TRAP HILL AREA LITTLE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST TEMPLE | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 71% 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.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC5× · 2021–2025 · $374k · revenue +10%
- ABAPPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +16%
- JFJUST FOR KIDS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $113k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $106k
- HIHOPE IN THE MOUNTAINS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +37% · 26% of their budget
- BSBRIANS SAFEHOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue -9%
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 west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
The mission of wvicu is to advance collectively the interests of west virginia's independent colleges and universities and their students.
To promote golfing throughout west virginia
To foster, support, and assist in any research and economic development activities consistent with the educational objectives and mission of west virginia state university.
To provide primary care services at no cost to uninsured and underinsured low income residents of west virginia.
Promotion and advancement of dentistry in west virginia
The west virginia rural health association (wvrha) advocates for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, their well-being, and their access to excellence in rural health care. our mission is to unite people,…
To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
Improve the administration of justice and the provision of legal services for west virginia's citizens.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beckley Concert Association. 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 76 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds WV PROFESSIONAL DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BECKLEY ART GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALDERSON BROADDUS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IN THE MOUNTAINS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIANS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LILLIAN JAMES LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC ↗
- Who funds HINTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST 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: Beckley Area Foundation Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Franklin W & Helen S Bowen Charitable Trust · United Way of Southern Wv Inc · Ritton Family Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Peoples Bank Foundation · American Water Charitable Foundationinc
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 Carter 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.
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.