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Edgar T Cato Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$570kRecreation & Sports$300kHuman Services$200kArts & Culture$85kAnimals$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AZULE$50,000
AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING INC$50,000
FRIENDS OF MADISON COUNTY ANIMALS (FOMCA)$25,000
THE SC BATTLEGROUND PRESERVATION TRUST$25,000
REBUILD HOT SPRINGS AREA$10,000
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 (FY19–24, $630k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING INC: $50k → 17%MADISON COUNTY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS: $150k → 15%AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING INC: $30k → 6%MADISON COUNTY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS: $100k → 15%MADISON COUNTY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS: $100k → 15%MADISON COUNTY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS: $100k → 15%MADISON COUNTY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS: $100k → 15%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.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$870k · 3 repeat orgs$380k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$870k
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+309%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther

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

  • MC
    Madison County Community Learning Centers
    5× · 2019–2023 · $550k · revenue +94%
  • SN
    SAIL NEWPORT
    2× · 2017–2020 · $300k · revenue -41%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE AIKEN CO PUBLIC LIBRARY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • HS
    HOT SPRINGS COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $120k
  • LO
    LIBRARY OF MADISON COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • AC
    AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +309%

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
Sandy Springs Volunteer Fire and Rescue

Rural fire fighting services

2
Swannanoa Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc

Provide fire protection and emergency first responder services to some 3900 citizens and visitors, of and, to the Swannanoa Fire district located in Buncombe County

3
Leicester Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection and rescue

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Bonlee Fire Department Inc

Fire Protection

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Knox County Rescue

Provide rescue and other community emergency services

6
The Boonville Community

To provide firefighting and fire prevention to the boonville county

Public Safety & Disaster
7
West Carter County Volunteer Fire Department

West Carter County Fire Department serves West Carter County, Tennessee as a volunteer fire department.

8
Conway Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Control of fires

9
West Yancey Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide an all volunteer fire protection & emergency services for a section of yancey county, north carolina.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
NO9 Township Fire & Rescue

Operation of volunteer fire department in craven county, north carolina

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Hiwassee Dam Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Area Congregations in Ministry

Area congregations in ministry is an exempt charitable organization under irc sec 501(c)(3) that provides temporary emergency assistance (primarily food) to needy residents of granville county, north carolina

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Area Churches Together Serving Inc and the most unlike its peers is Madison County Community Learning Centers. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Madison County Community Learning Centers — $550,000 · Human ServicesMadison County Community Learning CentersAREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING — $50,000 · Human ServicesAREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVINGAREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesSAIL NEWPORT — $300,000 · Recreation & SportsSAIL NEWPORTHOT SPRINGS COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $120,000 · OtherHOT SPRINGS COMMUNITY LE…LIBRARY OF MADISON COUNTY — $50,000 · OtherLIBRARY OF MADISON COUNT…AZULE — $50,000 · OtherAZULESC BATTLEGROUND PRESERVATION TRUST — $25,000 · OtherSC BATTLEGROUND PRESERVA…FRIENDS OF THE AIKEN CO PUBLIC LIBRARY — $20,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE AIKEN CO …HICKORY COMMUNITY THEATER — $10,000 · OtherFriends of Madison County Animals — $25,000 · AnimalsBETHLEHEM COMMUNITY FIRE & RESCUE INC — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterRebuild Hot Springs Area — $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Human Services$630,000Recreation & Sports$300,000Other$275,000Animals$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMadison County Community Learning Centers — $550,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetSAIL NEWPORT — $300,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetAREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING — $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING INC — $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFriends of Madison County Animals — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSC BATTLEGROUND PRESERVATION TRUST — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE AIKEN CO PUBLIC LIBRARY — $20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetRebuild Hot Springs Area — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Edgar T Cato Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Edgar T Cato Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Edgar T Cato Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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