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Herbert & Annie Carlton Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Herbert & Annie Carlton Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Religion$26kEducation$4kCivil Rights$2kHealth$400Human Services$300Science & Tech$200Public Safety & Disaster$100Social Science$100Other$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,883
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Various$7,883
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 15 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

$62k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+29%

Still filing today

47%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23
Civil RightsEducationReligionScience & TechHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • VC
    VIRGINIA CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $23k · revenue +200% · 44% of their budget
  • PA
    PRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $300 · revenue +15%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    2× · 2018–2019 · $300 · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • SB
    SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • SC
    Swift Creek Baptist Church
    one grant, 2019 · $975
  • BA
    BON AIR BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $350
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.

03Its 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
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
2
Liberty Initiative

Biblical worldview advancement

Religion
3
Virginia Society for Human Life Educational Fund

Promoting the Right to Life in Virginia through education.

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4
Indiana Right to Life Incorporated

To educate the public about abortion

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5
Liberty and Health Alliance

To serve humanity through the promotion of medical freedom and the uncensored liberty to speak without recrimination while upholding Gods methods as the best means of optimizing physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Religion
6
Alabama Pro-Life Coalition Education Fund Inc

Educate the public on all issues relevant to abortion.

Civil Rights
7
Family Policy Council of West Virginia Inc

A servant organization that advocates for policies that embrace the sanctity of human life enrich marriages and the safeguard of religious freedom

Civil Rights
8
Anglicans for Life Inc

Anglicans for Life is the only global Anglican Church ministry dedicated to inspiring the Anglican Communion to understand and compassionately apply God's Word when addressing abortion, abstinence, adoption, euthanasia, and Bioethics.…

Religion
9
Liberty Counsel Action

Liberty Counsel Actions mission is to advance religious freedom the sanctity of human life the family responsible government national security and support for Israel through education and advocacy on the national state and local levels.

—
10
Merely Human Ministries

To equip pro-life advocates to defend the dignity of life.

Civil Rights
11
A Choice for Life Inc

Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…

—
12
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas More Society; the most unlike its peers is Healing for the Nations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various: $32,488 · OtherVariousVeritas School: $2,000 · OtherLearn Inc.: $2,000 · Other+21 more: $5,415 · Other+21 moreVIRGINIA CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE INC: $22,700 · ReligionVIRGINIA CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE INCPRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC: $300 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $300 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH: $200 · Science & TechPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE: $100 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $100 · EducationSidewalk Advocates for Life: $100 · HealthHealing For The Nations: $100 · PhilanthropyTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $100 · Crime & Legal
Other$41,903Religion$22,700Civil Rights$600Science & Tech$200Education$200Health$100Philanthropy$100Crime & Legal$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVIRGINIA CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE INC: $22,700 over 2y, 44% of budgetPRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Human Life Foundation Inc: $240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEEDLE'S EYE MINISTRIES INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSidewalk Advocates for Life: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealing For The Nations: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATRICK HENRY COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA RIGHT TO LIFE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR BIO - ETHICAL REFORM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Servant FoundationKS15.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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 33 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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