· Private foundation
Robert Todd Carter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERTY BAPTIST CHURCH | $8,000 |
| JOHN S BATTLE HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| GENEVA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CARL PERKINS CENTER FOR PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE | $4,000 |
| JACOA | $4,000 |
| HOPEWELL AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $3,000 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| NEW CITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WAYNESBORO | $1,000 |
| WAYNESBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $500 |
| WAYNE THEATER | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of your 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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- FCFaith Christian School Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +31%
- DPDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +51%
- FCFAMILY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- YYWCAone grant, 2020 · $4k
- HAHOPEWELL AREA SCHOOL DISTRISTone grant, 2022 · $4k
- PSPENN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Educate students in their education centered on biblical truths and god.
Christian education for children
Faith bible christian school is dedicated to building academic excellence, developing christ-like character, and equipping students to serve others.
Grades 9-12 high school
Education
The purpose of Faith Christian Schools is to provide a quality education that "reinforces the Christian training of the home and church" by providing a Christ centered, Bible based curriculum, that inspires each student: 1) to know God…
Fellowship christian school, inc. provides education in an environment designed to develop the student's abilities in christian character, academic achievement, personal development, social responsibilities and leadership qualities.
The organization exists to assist in the education of students ages kindergarten through 12th grade in a private christian school. The organization exists to serve families by education with excellence in a Christ-centered community…
Kindergarten, Elementary & Secondary Education (K-12) of an Average of 300 Students
To educate children in the light of Gods work, and to prepare them for a life of service to God, to His creation, and to their community.
To provide quality educational services to students in grades kindergarten through twelve, in a Christ-centered environment.
Bethany Christian School is committed to providing an excellent, Christ-centered, child-focused academic program and to discipling students to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geneva College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mcallister Elementary School Ptso. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 32 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 Faith Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds Beaver Area School District Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds GENEVA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Beaver Falls Youth Network Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYNESBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds MCALLISTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTSO ↗
- Who funds HILLTOP HORIZONS INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Robert Todd Carter 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Robert Todd Carter Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Robert Todd Carter Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.