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John S Carpenter Trust Para 23

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$387kScience & Tech$17k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,875
Median grant
5
States reached
$738k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$4,875
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY$4,875
THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY$4,875
ROWAN UNIVERSITY$4,875
SPELMAN COLLEGE$4,875
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$4,875
HAVERFORD COLLEGE$4,875
KEAN UNIVERSITY$4,875
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $5k → 10%HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $5k → 10%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $5k → 13%ROWAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%KEAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 10%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $5k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
MD
DE
SC
DC
GA
FL

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$247k · 17 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
19

Total granted

$247k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+180%

Still filing today

41%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • SU
    STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +201%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    3× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +21%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • RU
    RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • AL
    ARIANNA LAPP CO RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • ED
    ELISE DAVENPORT CO MESSIAH COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $7k

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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
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
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
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
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
Gettysburg College

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

Education
7
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

8
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Corporation of Haverford College and the most unlike its peers is Salem Community College Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 41 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROWAN UNIVERSITY — $28,875 · OtherROWAN UNIVERSITYSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $17,500 · OtherSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $16,875 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $16,500 · OtherGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYELINOR FRANK CO BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY — $13,571 · OtherALEXA ROSE DEVILME CO SPELMAN COLLEGE — $13,571 · OtherUNIV OF DELAWARE FBO KAITLYN MAY — $11,500 · OtherBLOOMSBURG UNIV FBO ELINOR FRANK — $11,500 · OtherTHE UNIV OF TAMPA FBO AALIYAH HOLDEN — $11,500 · OtherSPELMAN COLLEGE FBO ALEXA ROSE DEVILME — $11,500 · OtherBARD COLLEGE FBO REMI VANGEEM — $11,500 · OtherTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY — $11,375 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITY — $11,000 · Other+19 more — $117,605 · Other+19 moreThe George Washington University — $16,500 · EducationThe George Washington Unive…MESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $16,500 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITYRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $16,500 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI…CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $11,375 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD CO…SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $11,000 · EducationSALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU…NEUMANN UNIVERSITY — $11,000 · EducationNEUMANN UNIVERSITYBARD COLLEGE — $6,500 · EducationBARD COLLEGELEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $4,875 · EducationSpelman College — $4,875 · Education
Other$304,372Education$99,125

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $16,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $11,375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNEUMANN UNIVERSITY — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $4,875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $4,875 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
  • Who funds The George Washington University
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE
  • Who funds SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEUMANN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Spelman College

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization John S Carpenter Trust Para 23 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 25%
  • University of Delaware25% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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