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Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$242k
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$847kHealth$282kArts & Culture$69kCommunity Improvement$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kReligion$26kInternational$22kHuman Services$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k54 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$114k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ROANOKE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP$5,000
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE$5,000
VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW VIRGINIA$5,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$5,000
STAR CITY MOTOR MADNESS$4,500
FIRST FRIDAYS AT FIVE INC$3,000
GRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AM HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FD: $4k → 16%AM HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FD: $2k → 16%SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF GREENBRIER VAL: $1k → 18%WARM HEARTH FOUNDATION: $250 → 21%WARM HEARTH FOUNDATION: $250 → 21%KOVAR: $250 → 20%KIDS SOAR: $100 → 20%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IA
WV
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 77 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
56

Total granted

$1.2M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+44%

Still filing today

45%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    Carilion Clinic Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +586%
  • NC
    North Cross School
    7× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +61%
  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • SM
    SCIENCE MUSEUM OF WESTERN VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -6%
  • RS
    ROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +71%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
2
Virginia Association of Museums

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".

Arts & Culture
3
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
4
The Virginia Air & Space Center

To serve as the region's leading source of informational science education through interactive science demonstrations, hands-on education programs and outreach programs.

Arts & Culture
5
Virginia Regional Transit

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.

Community Improvement
6
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce

The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.

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7
Wild Virginia Incorporated

Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.

Environment
8
Virginia Capital Trail Foundation

The virginia capital trail foundation exists to protect, promote, and enhance the virginia capital trail and engage communities around it.

Recreation & Sports
9
Virginia Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives

Trade association for electric cooperatives

—
10
Virginia Sheriffs' Association Inc

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.

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11
Vmrc Foundation Inc

We are a christ-centered community cultivating compassion, integrity and respect for aging well and living fully.

Human Services
12
Philanthropy West Virginia Inc

Strengthening philanthropy in the mountain state.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Virginia Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 157 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
44/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER IN THE SQUARE: $303,300 · OtherCENTER IN THE SQUAREVIRGINIA TECH CARILION RESEARCH INS: $110,000 · OtherVIRGINIA TECH CARILION RESEARCH INSVIRGINIA TECH ATHLETIC FUND: $90,000 · OtherVIRGINIA TECH ATHLETIC FUNDROANOKE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $40,000 · OtherVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT: $29,000 · Other+113 more: $262,551 · Other+113 moreCarilion Clinic Foundation: $215,250 · HealthCarilion Clinic Foun…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $8,750 · Health+6 more: $20,850 · Health+6 moreNorth Cross School: $108,000 · EducationNorth Cross Sch…HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $57,000 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY …THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND: $12,000 · EducationTHE VIRGINIA CO…+5 more: $9,250 · EducationTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $16,500 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF WESTERN VIRGINIA: $7,000 · Arts & CultureHARRISON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: $5,400 · Arts & CultureROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureGRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $3,750 · Arts & CultureMILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,250 · Arts & CultureFIRST FRIDAYS AT FIVE: $18,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $600 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC: $21,500 · International+1 more: $200 · InternationalAMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $1,500 · Human ServicesSHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY: $1,250 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $800 · Human ServicesWarm Hearth Foundation Inc: $500 · Human Services+2 more: $350 · Human Services
Other$834,851Health$244,850Education$186,250Arts & Culture$45,400Philanthropy$26,100International$21,700Human Services$9,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation: $215,250 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Cross School: $108,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $57,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC: $21,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFIRST FRIDAYS AT FIVE: $18,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $16,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND: $12,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $8,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF WESTERN VIRGINIA: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRAIN INJURY SERVICES OF SW VA INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGODS PIT CREW INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHARRISON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE: $5,400 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTAION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICABLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS COUNCIL: $3,910 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGRANDIN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $3,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $2,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREENBRIAR CHRISTIAN RETREAT: $2,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE LITERACY: $2,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERDS CENTER OF THE GREENBRIER VALLEY: $1,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPLE RIDGE FARM INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA LUTHERAN HOMES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROANOKE VALLEY GOLF HALL OF FAME INC: $600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew Freedom Farm Inc: $572 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWarm Hearth Foundation Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENBRIER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of Montgomery County: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPetworks Animal Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRISON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENBRIER VALLEY AQUATIC CENTER ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Robertson Family Foun…The Ceres Foundation …Edgar a Thurman Fdn C…The Newbern FoundationCarilion Medical Cent…United Way of Virgini…Investco FoundationEvelyn F James Founda…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Gordon C Willis Chari…Muse Family Foundatio…
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA64.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cartledge Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 157 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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