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Claiborne W Gooch Jr Char-Irr at a glance

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Claiborne W Gooch Jr Char-Irr

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Claiborne W Gooch Jr Char-Irr’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Bessemer Giving Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Philanthropy$2.1MReligion$10kHealth$9kEnvironment$8kEducation$5kCivil Rights$4kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$507,168
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND$1,014,336
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WNC$507,168
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$507,168
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 (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $507k → 16%THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $2k → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $2k → 18%CONSERVATION TRUST: $6k → 8%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WNC: $507k → 12%TURTLE ISLAND PRESERVE: $2k → 21%THE BESSEMER NATIONAL GIFT FUND: $1.0M → 8%YOUNG MARINE EXPLORERS: $900 → 7%VIRGINIA BEACH RESCUE SQUAD FDN INC: $1k → 10%HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FUND: $17k → 19%THE COUNTY SCHOOL: $5k → 10%FUND FOR JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $2k → 19%PLANNED PARENTHOOD HEALTH: $7k → 8%THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF: $1k → 12%TALBOT COUNTY YMCA: $5k → 10%CHRIST CHURCH: $10k → 10%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

NY
MA
OH
NJ
VA
MD
NC
AL
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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND: $1,014,336 · PhilanthropyTHE BESSEMER GIVING FUNDTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $507,168 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INCFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $547,168 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITAB…HAMPTON ROADS COMMUNITY FUND: $17,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD HEALTH: $6,500 · OtherCONSERVATION TRUST: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $2,000 · OtherFUND FOR JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $3,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalTurtle Island Preserve Inc: $1,500 · Education
Philanthropy$1,521,504Community Improvement$547,168Other$56,500Crime & Legal$2,000Education$1,500

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 BESSEMER GIVING FUND: $1,014,336 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $547,168 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $507,168 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurtle Island Preserve Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVirginia Beach Rescue Squad Foundation Inc: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Claiborne W Gooch Jr Char-Irr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Claiborne W Gooch Jr Char-Irr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 16 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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