· Private foundation
Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
88% of Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Burke County, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $41k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLIVE BRANCH MINISTRY | $8,000 |
| NC VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| UNC WILMINGTON | $4,000 |
| MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY | $4,000 |
| BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $2,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING | $2,000 |
| WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF HOPE | $2,000 |
| SHEPERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS FOR ANIMALS | $600 |
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 (FY20–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +57% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- MAMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +73%
- WCWEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC5× · 2019–2023 · $11k · revenue +265%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ULUNC LINEBERGER CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $4k
- CCCHEQUAMEGON CHILDREN'S THEATER LTDone grant, 2019 · $4k
FAMILIES MOVING FORWARDone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -11%
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.
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.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
See Disclosure Above.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
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…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Angels Among Us. 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 37 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.
49 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. 49 of the 82 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE CO INC THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds JUPITER TEQUESTA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION I ↗
- Who funds OXBRIDGE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BURKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
- Who funds A BETTER LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Friends for Animals ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Rostan Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Burke County · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Ruth Harbison Carr Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
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.