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Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,385,756
Organizations funded a year
7 to 14
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$191k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentPublic BenefitHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$3.4M60%
FY20238$1.1M38%
FY20227$155k43%
FY20219$198k56%
FY202014$144kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$2.5MEducation$2.1MHealth$276kReligion$50kPublic Benefit$45kArts & Culture$25kCivil Rights$15kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
US Naval Academy Foundation Inc$2,020,90042%
Samaritan's Purse$55,00030%
Judicial Watch Inc$40,00020%
Nami Cape Cod Inc$40,00042%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$35,00010%
Kingdom Life Church$35,0001n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$25,0001n/a
Atrium Health Foundation$25,00010%
Water Missions International$25,00030%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$10,0001n/a
Show all 22 grantees
All grantees of Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
US Naval Academy Foundation Inc$2,020,90042%
Samaritan's Purse$55,00030%
Judicial Watch Inc$40,00020%
Nami Cape Cod Inc$40,00042%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$35,00010%
Kingdom Life Church$35,0001n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$25,0001n/a
Atrium Health Foundation$25,00010%
Water Missions International$25,00030%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$10,0001n/a
United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc$10,00010%
The Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc$10,00011%
The Oyster Harbors Club Scholarship Fund Inc$10,00031%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$10,0001n/a
David Horowitz Freedom Center$10,00010%
Calvary Chapel$5,0001n/a
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc$5,00011%
Alliance Defending Freedom$5,00010%
The Heritage Foundation$5,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$5,00010%
Charlotte Ballet$5,00010%
Homeward Bound of Marin$1,00010%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUS Naval Academy Foundation Inc: $2,020,900 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNami Cape Cod Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtrium Health Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWater Missions International: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Charlotte Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Oyster Harbors Club Scholarship Fund Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDavid Horowitz Freedom Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Ballet: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation

How much does Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation give?
Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $3,396,756 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (50%), Education (41%), Health (6%).
Who are Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: US Naval Academy Foundation Inc ($2.0M), Samaritan's Purse ($55k), Judicial Watch Inc ($40k).
Does Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation based?
Robert and Molly Tarr Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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