· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
- MCMadison County Community Learning Centers5× · 2019–2023 · $550k · revenue +94%
- SNSAIL NEWPORT2× · 2017–2020 · $300k · revenue -41%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE AIKEN CO PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- HSHOT SPRINGS COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2017 · $120k
- LOLIBRARY OF MADISON COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $50k
- ACAREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
Rural fire fighting services
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
Fire protection and rescue
Fire Protection
Provide rescue and other community emergency services
To provide firefighting and fire prevention to the boonville county
West Carter County Fire Department serves West Carter County, Tennessee as a volunteer fire department.
Control of fires
Provide an all volunteer fire protection & emergency services for a section of yancey county, north carolina.
Operation of volunteer fire department in craven county, north carolina
Volunteer fire department
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
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 Madison County Community Learning Centers ↗
- Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING ↗
- Who funds AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER SERVING INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Madison County Animals ↗
- Who funds SC BATTLEGROUND PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AIKEN CO PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM COMMUNITY FIRE & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuild Hot Springs Area ↗
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.
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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.
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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