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Caruthers Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$320k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
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 FY20212025.

Health$275kEducation$80kArts & Culture$75kHousing & Shelter$65kPhilanthropy$30kAnimals$20kCrime & Legal$10kHuman Services$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VHC HEALTH FOUNDATION$250,000
MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$50,000
ALSACST JUDE$10,000
ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 18% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $50k → 14%ALSACST JUDE: $5k → 17%RED BARN RESCUE INC: $10k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 6%MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $50k → 7%BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA: $5k → 7%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $25k → 14%RED BARN RESCUE: $10k → 10%PATH FORWARD: $10k → 7%ARLINGTON COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 7%EMERGING SCHOLARS: $10k → 7%PATH FORWARD: $5k → 7%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL: $5k → 7%VHC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $250k → 7%DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $25k → 7%DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $25k → 7%ALSACST JUDE: $10k → 7%ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%NATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT & RECOVERY: $10k → 7%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $5k → 7%MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%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.

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$230k · 6 repeat orgs$296k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$230k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • MU
    MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $55k · revenue +6%
  • RB
    RED BARN RESCUE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +20%
  • PI
    PathForward Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AC
    ARLINGTON COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • NC
    NATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -2%

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
American University

To advance knowledge, foster intellectual curiosity, build community, and empower lives of purpose, service, and leadership.

Education
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
12
Saint Marys School

Saint Marys School in Raleigh NC is an independent college-preparatory girls boarding and day school dedicated to academic excellence and personal achievement for grades 9 - 12.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Capital Treatment and Recovery and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VHC HEALTH FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherVHC HEALTH FOUNDATIONTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $75,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTSMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $55,000 · OtherMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — $50,000 · OtherDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN+6 more — $46,000 · Other+6 moreARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyRED BARN RESCUE — $20,000 · AnimalsPathForward Inc — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY — $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $5,000 · Education
Other$476,000Philanthropy$30,000Animals$20,000Community Improvement$15,000Health$10,000Education$5,000

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 budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRED BARN RESCUE — $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPathForward Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Caruthers 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.

    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 15 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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