· Private foundation
Farrington 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISLAND CAT ALLIES | $40,000 |
| UNC AT CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC RADIO | $30,000 |
| CARTERET COMMUNITY THEATRE | $20,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $10,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NC COASTAL FEDERATION | $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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- ICISLAND CAT ALLIES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $123k · revenue +7% · 37% of their budget
- CCCrystal Coast Habitat for Humanity3× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +80%
PRO PUBLICA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY LAWone grant, 2019 · $50k
- TSTHE SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -75%
- IVINEZ VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -23%
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 assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
To rescue, rehabilitate and rehome homeless pets
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Carolina Cat Rescue's mission is to help the unwanted cats and kittens of North Carolina that end up at county shelters or are in need of rescue. We partner with no-kill reputable cat rescues in the Northeast and transport the cats there.…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.
The organization stands for every pet and pet owner by making the highest quality veterinary care and spay neuter services affordable and accessible, with the goal of reducing the number of dogs and cats euthanized in regional shelters and…
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
Aspca veterinary services of north carolina, p.c. is a professional corporation that provides the veterinary services of qualified, licensed veterinarians exclusively to the aspca in north carolina. these services include the veterinary…
To address pet overpopulation in our state by offering high quality, low cost spay-neuter surgeries for pets belonging to north carolina families in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Coastal Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Horses of Pamlico Etc. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 50 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 KERR VANCE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND CAT ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Crystal Coast Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INEZ VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARTERET COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds The Animal League of Green Valley ↗
- Who funds HOPE MISSION OF COASTAL CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC RADIO EAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND CULTURAL ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds PET ADOPTION AND WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORLINA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MISSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Delray Beach Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds Democracy North Carolina ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good
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 Farrington 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.
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.