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Caruthers Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 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, FY2021 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 18% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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%EMERGING SCHOLARS: $10k → 7%ARLINGTON COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 7%PATH FORWARD: $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%ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%ALSACST JUDE: $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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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

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

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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Capital Treatment and Recovery; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Caruthers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caruthers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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