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E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
310
Grants FY2024still arriving
32
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$22MEducation$19MReligion$10MHealth$6.5MHuman Services$3.3MCivil Rights$2.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 310 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k198 grants · $4.8M
  • $50k–250k83 grants · $6.6M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.8M
$30,000
Median grant
32
States reached
$252M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$250,000
VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VNA CARE HOSPICE INC: $100k → 11%BELOVED BUILDERS INC: $40k → 12%TRI-COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $50k → 8%HARRISBURG CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC: $50k → 14%TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%VNA CARE HOSPICE INC: $100k → 11%BELOVED BUILDERS INC: $40k → 12%INLAND COUNTIES REGIONAL CENTER INC: $40k → 14%INLAND COUNTIES REGIONAL CENTER: $40k → 14%CALDWELL COUNTY YOKEFELLOW INC: $25k → 16%INLAND COUNTIES REGIONAL CENTER INC: $35k → 14%CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $30k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $25k → 7%INLAND COUNTIES REGIONAL CENTER INC: $35k → 14%CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION: $40k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE OF GREATER PH: $25k → 7%INLAND COUNTIES REGIONAL CENTER INC: $35k → 14%CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION: $40k → 12%CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION: $40k → 12%EASTERN CATAWBA COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $35k → 12%MISSISSIPPI METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES: $45k → 14%VNA CARE HOSPICE INC: $124k → 11%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $25k → 17%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $150k → 12%VNA CARE HOSPICE INC: $100k → 11%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $25k → 17%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $100k → 12%VNA CARE HOSPICE INC: $100k → 11%VNA CARE HOSPICE INC: $100k → 11%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON: $50k → 14%FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $25k → 12%HELPING HANDS MINISSTRY OF BELTON: $45k → 14%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON: $40k → 14%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $60k → 22%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON: $40k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $30k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRELN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $30k → 22%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $20k → 17%HELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON: $30k → 14%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $20k → 17%TANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $20k → 17%VIRGINIA VOICE: $20k → 9%VIRGINIA VOICE: $20k → 9%VIRGINIA VOICE: $20k → 9%OPERATION SAFEHOUSE: $25k → 11%OPERATION SAFEHOUSE: $25k → 11%OPERATION SAFEHOUSE: $25k → 11%OPERATION SAFEHOUSE: $25k → 11%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

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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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62M · 360 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

360
227

Total granted

$62M
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+12%

Still filing today

75%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionCivil RightsOther
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

  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
    2× · 2019–2021 · $3.0M · revenue +63%
  • VR
    VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +1%
  • TR
    THE RICHMOND BALLET
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • VD
    VANDERBILT DIVINITY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $700k
  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +30%
  • S3
    SOAR 365
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +18%
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
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
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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3
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
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
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
9
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
10
Lehigh University

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…

Education
11
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
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center; 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.
04the grantee network

440 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 440 of the 661 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.

22
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
90
Early backer (in before they grew)
429/440
Grantees still filing
304/440
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITIY: $5,000,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITIYHADWEN PARK CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $1,210,000 · OtherHEALTH BRIGADE: $825,000 · Other+85 more: $16,993,257 · Other+85 moreVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $1,645,700 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRETHE RICHMOND BALLET: $1,519,228 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND BALLETTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $1,125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONYWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $700,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $580,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM: $577,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $554,000 · Arts & CultureVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $531,689 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 · Arts & Culture+32 more: $6,193,300 · Arts & Culture+32 moreHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $3,000,000 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $750,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSIT…PACIFIC SCHOOL OF RELIGION: $618,000 · EducationBRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $468,000 · EducationRIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $445,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $400,000 · Education+27 more: $5,479,523 · Education+27 moreTEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC: $500,000 · HealthScott & White Healthcare Foundation: $330,000 · HealthCHRISTIAN FARMS TREEHOUSE INC: $270,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $255,000 · HealthAUTISM CENTER OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI INC: $240,000 · HealthBODY OF CHRIST COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $235,000 · HealthCATCH KIDS INC: $160,000 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $155,000 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH SERV INC: $150,000 · HealthTALBOT HOUSE INC: $132,000 · HealthTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $130,000 · HealthRIVERSIDE AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $110,000 · HealthALEXANDER RESCUE SQUAD & EMS INC: $106,000 · HealthVNA Care Hospice Inc: $624,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesINLAND COUNTIES REGIONAL CENTER INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS MINISTRY OF BELTON INC: $205,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesTHE SANCTUARY HOSPICE HOUSE INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $130,000 · Human ServicesCAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesTANENBAUM CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING: $120,000 · Human ServicesBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $250,000 · ReligionESHEL: $200,000 · ReligionAWAB THE ASSOCIATION OF WELCOMING AND AFFIRMING BAPTISTS: $190,000 · ReligionQ CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $166,370 · ReligionINTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $165,000 · ReligionPUBLIC RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · ReligionTRINITY COMMUNITY CONNECTION INC: $147,000 · ReligionEXTRAORDINARY LUTHERAN MINISTRIES: $135,000 · ReligionRESOURCE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND MINISTRY IN THE SOUTH INC: $118,000 · ReligionINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $100,000 · ReligionHebrew Senior Life Inc: $405,500 · PhilanthropyRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCREATE FOUNDATION: $215,400 · PhilanthropyFOX RIVERSIDE THEATER FOUNDATION: $140,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $125,000 · Philanthropy
Other$24,028,257Arts & Culture$13,955,917Education$11,660,523Health$2,773,000Human Services$1,944,000Religion$1,621,370Philanthropy$1,135,900

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $3,000,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $1,645,700 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $1,519,228 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $1,125,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE: $825,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $700,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetVNA Care Hospice Inc: $624,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC SCHOOL OF RELIGION: $618,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $580,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM: $577,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $554,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $531,689 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetTEMPLE COMMUNITY CLINIC: $500,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetBRITE DIVINITY SCHOOL: $500,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $468,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF WORCESTERINC: $460,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCultureWorks Inc: $447,500 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetRIVERSIDE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $445,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetBELTON CHRISTIAN YOUTH CENTER: $410,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $405,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $400,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $370,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $340,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $340,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER CENTRAL TEXAS INC: $330,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetScott & White Healthcare Foundation: $330,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FIREHOUSE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $320,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetWOMEN'S ALLIANCE FOR THEOLOGY ETHICS AND RITUAL INC: $318,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetSchool of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community: $310,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetRICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE: $299,700 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetRichmond Triangle Players Inc: $299,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetST STEPHENS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $295,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetRIVERSIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $290,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetRichmond Shakespeare FKA Quill Theatre: $285,000 over 6y, 86% of budgetNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE: $275,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $274,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN FARMS TREEHOUSE INC: $270,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetTHE OPEN AND AFFIRMING COALITION OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $267,500 over 5y, 35% of budgetTHE CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS: $265,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $255,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCADENCE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $250,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE: $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $250,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $250,000 over 4y, 0.6% 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 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF GREATER CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Scott & White Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

George Foundation IncBeaver Family Foundat…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Tesco FoundationThe Community Foundat…The Mary Morton Parso…Robert G Cabell III a…Wabash CollegeThe Henry Luce Founda…The Pauley Family Fou…Tsh Charitable Founda…Peachtree House Found…
George Foundation IncNC56.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 661 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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