· Private foundation
Carter Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k31 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
- $250k+1 grant · $504k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $504,000 |
| BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION | $135,000 |
| JUST FOR KIDS INC | $26,550 |
| WV PROFESSIONAL DANCE COMPANY | $22,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST TEMPLE | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY BECKLEY | $20,000 |
| BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THEATRE WEST VIRGINIA | $14,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV | $13,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BECKLEY LITTLE LEAGUE | $8,000 |
| QUOTA CLUB OF BECKLEY | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES WV | $5,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST TEMPLE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2026, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC5× · 2021–2025 · $374k · revenue +10%
- JFJUST FOR KIDS INC6× · 2021–2026 · $139k · revenue +97%
- ABAPPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $106k
- BCBECKLEY CONVENTION CENTERone grant, 2025 · $67k
- RCRALEIGH COUNTY VETERANS ASSOC INCone grant, 2025 · $51k
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.
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.
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity 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.
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
Promotion and advancement of dentistry in west virginia
To provide primary care services at no cost to uninsured and underinsured low income residents of west virginia.
To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of 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 promote the general welfare through development and maintenance of high standards of professional care and administration in all long-term care facilities to establish and promote programs of education for maintaining high standards of…
Promotes the conservation of natural resources
The organizations mission is to unite member boards of realtors and their members in the state of west virginia for the purpose of effectively exerting a combined influence upon matters affecting real estate, to elevate the standards of…
Improve the administration of justice and the provision of legal services for west virginia's citizens.
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN BIBLE COLLEGE 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 ACTIVE SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN WV INC ↗
- Who funds BRIANS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds LILLIAN JAMES LEARNING CENTER 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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