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Charles Wentz Carter Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$12k
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 FY20202025.

Education$111kInternational$77kScience & Tech$48kHuman Services$37kYouth Development$33kHealth$27kEmployment$22kArts & Culture$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$364k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH$12,000
EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDRE$8,400
PEGASUS PROJECT$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
SPIRIT IN ACTION$7,000
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES-DREXELU$5,000
HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LDRSHP PROGRM$5,000
BRAVO BLUE RIDGE ADVENTURES$5,000
CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF$3,000
GEORGE STEVENS ACADEMY$2,900
ARTS EMPOWERING LIFE$2,500
REDWOOD FOREST FRIENDS MEETING$1,700
NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSE INC$1,500
KIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL$1,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PEGASUS PROJECT: $8k → 10%BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH: $12k → 11%PEGASUS PROJECT: $6k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$348k · 15 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$348k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+45%

Still filing today

60%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • EF
    EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +42%
  • GS
    George Stevens Academy
    6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +1%
  • CS
    COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • BH
    Banner Healthgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +45%
  • EL
    EAST LAKE EXPRESSION ENGINE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
2
Best in the World Teachers
Education
3
Learning for All
Education
4
Innovations in Education - a Nelson Project
Education
5
One School One Child
International
6
Little Keswick Education Corporation

Keswick school was founded in 1963 as little keswick school by bob and libby wilson, two local public school teachers who started the school on their 25 acre farm (little keswick farm) outside of charlottesville, va. initially a summer…

Education
7
The Citizen Science Lab

Creating science pipelines for diverse and marginalized communities through life changing hands-on stem experiences.

Human Services
8
Partners in Education
Education
9
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
10
Chartwell School

Chartwell School empowers bright students with language-based learning differences, including dyslexia. We do this in grades K-12 by offering them the knowledge, creativity, and skills in self advocacy and perseverance needed to thrive in…

Education
11
Robert Treat Academy Charter School

The organization offers children ages five and older an opportunity to learn and grow in a safe and stimulating academic environment in which the core subjects of language arts, mathematics, science, technology, social science and world…

Unclassified
12
Colorado Christian Academy

Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech and the most unlike its peers is Spirit in Action. 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

14 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. 14 of the 22 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)
12/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES-DREXELU — $48,000 · OtherACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES-DREXELUIndividual grant recipient — $21,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC — $21,000 · OtherCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INCARTS EMPOWERING LIFE — $19,500 · OtherARTS EMPOWERING LIFEREDWOOD FOREST FRIENDS MEETING INCORPORATED — $10,840 · OtherREDWOOD FOREST FRIENDS MEETING INCORPOR…Individual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherBRAVO BLUE RIDGE ADVENTURES — $5,000 · OtherLOUDEN CNTY HS ATHLETIC BOOSTER CL — $5,000 · Other+1 more — $1,000 · OtherGeorge Stevens Academy — $40,800 · EducationGeorge Stevens AcademyKIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL — $20,100 · EducationKIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOLTHE CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CLARKE SCHOOLS FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $15,000 · EducationTHE CLARKE SCHOOL FOR TH…NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC — $9,500 · EducationNORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINCEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN — $45,400 · InternationalEDUCATION FOR ALL CHIL…HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM — $32,000 · InternationalHAITIAN EDUCATION AND …SPIRIT IN ACTION — $37,350 · Human ServicesSPIRIT IN ACTIONPEGASUS PROJECT — $13,500 · Human ServicesPEGASUS PROJECTBRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH — $12,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT FUTURES FOR…Banner Health — $10,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $3,000 · HealthCAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATION — $11,000 · Recreation & SportsEAST LAKE EXPRESSION ENGINE — $5,300 · Arts & Culture
Other$136,840Education$85,400International$77,400Human Services$62,850Health$13,000Recreation & Sports$11,000Arts & Culture$5,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN — $45,400 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGeorge Stevens Academy — $40,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSPIRIT IN ACTION — $37,350 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetHAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM — $32,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL — $20,100 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CLARKE SCHOOLS FOR HEARING AND SPEECH — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBanner Health — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC — $9,500 over 6y, 62% of budgetEAST LAKE EXPRESSION ENGINE — $5,300 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $3,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN
  • Who funds George Stevens Academy
  • Who funds SPIRIT IN ACTION
  • Who funds HAITIAN EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
  • Who funds COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC
  • Who funds KIMBERTON WALDORF SCHOOL
  • Who funds THE CLARKE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF CLARKE SCHOOLS FOR HEARING AND SPEECH
  • Who funds PEGASUS PROJECT
  • Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH
  • Who funds CAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Banner Health
  • Who funds NORTHWEST SCHOOLHOUSEINC
  • Who funds EAST LAKE EXPRESSION ENGINE
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Charles Wentz Carter Memorial Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc10% of income from government
  • The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 22 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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