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Carters Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$1.2MYouth Development$1.0MPhilanthropy$481kHuman Services$460kHealth$450kInternational$370kHousing & Shelter$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $775k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Clubs$450,333
United Way of Metro Atlanta$101,000
USO - United through Reading$100,000
Delivering Good$100,000
Communities IN Schools$100,000
Boys & Girls Clubs Canada$73,868
Beyond Bedtime$50,000
Blood Cancer United$50,000
Sheltering Arms$50,000
March of Dimes$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Save the Children$50,000
Atlanta Fulton County Zoo$37,000
Soccer in the Streets$25,000
LEAD Inc$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Beyond Bedtime: $50k → 17%Bert's Big Adventure: $25k → 13%Pajama Program: $50k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 14%Bert's Big Adventure: $25k → 13%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $50k → 17%BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE: $25k → 13%Delivering Good: $100k → 17%Bert's Big Adventure: $25k → 13%Berts Big Adventure: $25k → 13%BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE: $25k → 13%LEAD Inc: $25k → 13%LEAD Inc: $25k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
NY
CT
CO
VA
NC
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 18 repeat orgs$601k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
10

Total granted

$3.7M
$316k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-6%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +1%
  • TS
    THE SHELTERING ARMS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +11%
  • HA
    HOPE ATLANTA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • ST
    SAVE THE CHILDREN CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
2
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
3
Girls Inc of Chattanooga

Girls inc. of chattanooga inspires and equips girls to be strong, smart and bold leaders within their families, their communities and society.

Youth Development
4
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

5
Solving Kids' Cancer Inc

Skc impacts children through the initiation of clinical research trials of investigative treatment strategies. our vision is to continue expanding the armamentarium of effective and less toxic treartment strategies for pediatric…

Health
6
Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines Inc

Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
7
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
8
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
9
Geears the Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students Inc

To support high quality early learning and healthy development for georgia's youngest children from birth to five, by championing policies, promoting innovative and evidence-based practices and building public will.

Education
10
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
11
Hands on Atlanta Inc

We mobilize the Atlanta community to tackle our city's most pressing needs.

Philanthropy
12
Teach for All Inc

Develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delivering Good Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
6/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Boys & Girls Clubs — $897,086 · OtherBoys & Girls ClubsUSO - United through Reading — $487,500 · OtherUSO - United through ReadingUNITED WAY OF METRO ATLANTA — $481,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF METRO ATLANTATHE SHELTERING ARMS INC — $245,000 · OtherTHE SHELTERING ARMS INCCommunities IN Schools — $150,000 · OtherHOPE ATLANTA INC — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta — $100,000 · Other+12 more — $285,368 · Other+12 moreBEYOND BEDTIME INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND BEDTIM…BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesBERT'S BIG AD…DELIVERING GOOD INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesDELIVERING GO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…LEAD INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesLEAD INCDONORSCHOOSEORG — $250,000 · EducationTommy Spaulding Leadership Institute — $45,600 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationSave The Children Federation Inc — $300,000 · InternationalBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $150,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $50,000 · HealthSoccer In the Streets Inc — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC — $37,000 · Animals
Other$2,895,954Human Services$500,000Education$300,600International$300,000Health$200,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Animals$37,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTERING ARMS INC — $245,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND BEDTIME INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ATLANTA INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC — $150,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSoccer In the Streets Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAD INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTommy Spaulding Leadership Institute — $45,600 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORMAL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS AGAINST ABUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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 Save The Children Federation Inc
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG
  • Who funds THE SHELTERING ARMS INC
  • Who funds BEYOND BEDTIME INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds HOPE ATLANTA INC
  • Who funds BERT'S BIG ADVENTURE INC
  • Who funds DELIVERING GOOD INC
  • Who funds Soccer In the Streets Inc
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds LEAD INC
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC
  • Who funds Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute
  • Who funds ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc
  • Who funds NORMAL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds ANGELS AGAINST ABUSE 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.

Southern Company Gas Charitable Foundation IncGA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Carters Charitable Foundation 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.

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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Carters Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Carters Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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