· Private foundation
E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k198 grants · $4.8M
- $50k–250k83 grants · $6.6M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITIY | $1,000,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHUR | $295,000 |
| SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHUR | $285,000 |
| VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE | $250,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| RICHMOND BALLET INC | $215,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $200,000 |
| RICHMOND SYMPHONY | $185,000 |
| YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY | $150,000 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $150,000 |
| ST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT | $150,000 |
| BRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| ADAMAH INC | $140,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
360 repeat relationships — 226 still active in FY2024, 134 since wound down; 64 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE2× · 2019–2021 · $3.0M · revenue +63%
- VRVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +1%
- TRTHE RICHMOND BALLET5× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +4%
Funded once
- VDVANDERBILT DIVINITY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $700k
- BSBon Secours Mercy Health Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +30%
- S3SOAR 365one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +18%
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 collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Maiden Rescue Squad 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 45 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
439 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 439 of the 661 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds HEALTH BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VNA Care Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCHOOL OF RELIGION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC ↗
- Who funds CultureWorks Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELTON CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Scott & White Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIREHOUSE THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ALLIANCE FOR THEOLOGY ETHICS AND RITUAL INC ↗
- Who funds School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community ↗
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: George Foundation Inc · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Tesco Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Wabash College · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · The Pauley Family Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · Peachtree House 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 E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Vna Care Hospice Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 0% 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.
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