· Private foundation
Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of CARTLEDGE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k54 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER IN THE SQUARE | $62,500 |
| CARILION CLINIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $22,949 |
| NORTH CROSS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH ATHLETIC FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF F | $7,333 |
| HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE | $6,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT | $5,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ROANOKE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| STAR CITY MOTOR MADNESS | $4,500 |
| FIRST FRIDAYS AT FIVE INC | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SW VA | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
77 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- CCCarilion Clinic Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +481%
- NCNorth Cross School7× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +61%
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SMSCIENCE MUSEUM OF WESTERN VIRGINIAone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -6%
- RSROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +71%
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.
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…
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".
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
To serve as the region's leading source of informational science education through interactive science demonstrations, hands-on education programs and outreach programs.
Virginia regional transit's mission is to create access to mobility through direct passenger service, transit system management and transit related services for the public.
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.
The virginia capital trail foundation exists to protect, promote, and enhance the virginia capital trail and engage communities around it.
Trade association for electric cooperatives
Vsa represents sheriffs and their staff on criminal justice issues on a state level and provides information about emerging law enforcement issues, corrections and crime prevention to sheriff's offices and the public.
We are a christ-centered community cultivating compassion, integrity and respect for aging well and living fully.
Strengthening philanthropy in the mountain state.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenbriar Christian Retreat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 157 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 Carilion Clinic Foundation ↗
- Who funds North Cross School ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRIDAYS AT FIVE ↗
- Who funds TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF WESTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY SERVICES OF SW VA INC ↗
- Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds STAR CITY MOTOR MADNESS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICABLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · The Ceres Foundation Inc · Edgar a Thurman Fdn Children Nect · The Newbern Foundation · Carilion Medical Center · United Way of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc · Investco Foundation · Evelyn F James Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gordon C Willis Charitable Trust · Muse Family Foundation Co Elizabeth Muse
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 Cartledge 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.