· Private foundation
Carver 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY | $10,000 |
| THE BANNER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (MYSTIC AQUARIUM) | $10,000 |
| DOLPHINS PLUS MARINE MAMMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $5,181 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS | $5,163 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL | $5,145 |
| AFTER THE RACES | $5,125 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE VERVET MONKEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ELEPHANT AID INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| WOLF SANCTUARY OF PA | $5,000 |
| DAYS END HORSE FARM & RESCUE | $5,000 |
| HIDDEN HARBOR MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- DEDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +57%
- UWUNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC2× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +21%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE VERVET MONKEY FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- DDPMMRone grant, 2022 · $25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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 rescue rehabilitate homeless dogs
Doe Eyes Animal Sanctuary and Rescue is a 501c3 nonprofit organization located in the Washington DC-Maryland-Virginia area, that is committed to rescuing and rehabilitating any abused, neglected or in need animal. We are a loving furever…
The rescue and rehabilitation of canines.
Animal rescue dedicated to saving the lives of all dogs and cats. staffed only by volunteers and rely on contributions and adoption fees all animals are fostered in homes and allows us to find suitable h
Feral Cat Rescue provides support for spay and neutering feral cats in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Expenses include spay, neutering, vaccination against rabies and distemper, micro chipping, parasite control both internal and external and…
The hero rescue is formed by a network of volunteers and fosters committed to saving lives of animals at risk of euthanasia, abuse, and neglect. by relocating animals from over crowded shelters to maryland for adequate veterinary care,…
Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary and the most unlike its peers is Saving Sage Animal Rescue Foundation Inc. 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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 78 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 THE BANNER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER THE RACES INC ↗
- Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FREDERICK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE VERVET MONKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Saving Sage Animal Rescue Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOLF SANCTUARY OF PA INC ↗
- Who funds Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds CHORDS OF COURAGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds POPLAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS ↗
- Who funds OWL MOON RAPTOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ENSEMBLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds BELLO MACHRE 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: Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Ausherman Family Trust · Ausherman Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Frederick County Maryland Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Joseph D Baker Fund Inc · United Way of Frederick County Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Carver 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Spanish-Speaking Community of Maryland Inc — 10% of income from government
- Maryland Ensemble Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.