West Virginia · Private foundation
Carter Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $886k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2026
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $504,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 45
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $14M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 13% of the organizations Carter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 35 | $728k | 11% |
| FY2025 | 45 | $548k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $580k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $508k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $652k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $482k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Charleston Inc | $373,800 | 5 | 0% |
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc | $200,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Concord University | $175,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Just for Kids Inc | $139,050 | 6 | 7% |
| Appalachian Bible College Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wv Professional Dance Company Inc | $122,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Beckley Art Group Inc | $87,500 | 2 | 32% |
| United Methodist Temple | $62,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Raleigh County Veterans Assoc Inc | $51,050 | 1 | n/a |
| West Virginia Wesleyan College | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carter Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Carter Family Foundation
- How much does Carter Family Foundation give?
- Carter Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $886,050 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 45 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Carter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (42%), Philanthropy (12%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Carter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: The University of Charleston Inc ($374k), West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($201k), Concord University ($175k).
- Does Carter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carter Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Beckley Area Foundation Inc, The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.
- Where is Carter Family Foundation based?
- Carter Family Foundation is based in WV.
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