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Culp Family Foundation at a glance

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Culp Family Foundation

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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.4MSocial Science$2.6MHealth$1.1MRecreation & Sports$1.0MEnvironment$951kAnimals$517kHuman Services$500kCommunity Improvement$480kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $771k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON COLLEGE TENNIS CENTER$1,000,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$500,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$400,000
JOHN HOPKINS$125,000
THE POTOMAC SCHOOL$107,143
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$100,000
KIT-CARES INC$100,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$100,000
WASHINGTON COLLEGE 4 FTE's$99,347
WASHINGTON COLLEGE GE SCHOLARS$90,000
MARET SCHOOL$50,000
OPEN DOORS$20,000
KENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING INC$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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
UT
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.7M · 16 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
22

Total granted

$9.7M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • TP
    The Potomac School
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +31%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +16%
  • KC
    KIT CARES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +7% · 59% of their budget

Funded once

  • C
    CHESTERTOWN
    one grant, 2018 · $480k
  • HC
    HARVARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $400k
  • FR
    FOXG1 Research Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +4%
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
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

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6
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
7
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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8
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
9
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
12
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

22 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. 22 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $2,650,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLWASHINGTON COLLEGE TENNIS CENTER: $1,000,000 · OtherWASHINGTON COLLEGE TENNIS CENTERWASHINGTON COLLEGE GE SCHOLARS: $866,949 · OtherWASHINGTON COLLEGE GE SCHOLARSTHE ANIMAL SHELTER FOR KENT COUNTY: $500,000 · OtherTHE ANIMAL SHELTER FOR KENT COUNTYDANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $500,000 · OtherDANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEWASHINGTON COLLEGE PAT ALLENDER CHAIR: $500,000 · OtherWASHINGTON COLLEGE PAT ALLENDER CHAIRCHESTERTOWN: $480,000 · OtherCHESTERTOWNHARVARD COLLEGE: $400,000 · OtherWASHINGTON COLLEGE 4 FTE's: $356,005 · Other+15 more: $524,000 · Other+15 moreThe Potomac School: $2,691,072 · EducationThe Potomac SchoolWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $209,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $115,000 · Education+3 more: $250,000 · Education+3 moreKIT CARES INC: $500,000 · Animals+4 more: $13,500 · AnimalsCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · EnvironmentSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $448,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFOXG1 Research Inc: $250,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human Services
Other$7,776,954Education$3,265,072Animals$513,500Environment$500,000Arts & Culture$450,750Health$250,000Human Services$50,000

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 Potomac School: $2,691,072 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKIT CARES INC: $500,000 over 5y, 59% of budgetSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $448,250 over 2y, 12% of budgetFOXG1 Research Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $209,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $115,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARET SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINARYS DREAM ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetOPEN DOORS INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAIRLINK INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF KENT CO MD: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF KENT COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAROLINE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds The Potomac School ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIT CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds SULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOXG1 Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARET SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MINARYS DREAM ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOORS INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AIRLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds KENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF KENT CO MD ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗

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.

Mid Shore Community F…T Rowe Price Program …David a Bramble Found…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…
Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Kent Attainable Housing Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Sultana Education Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 40 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home