How much does Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation give?

Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $41,175 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Philanthropy (26%), Animals (18%).

Who are Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Virginia Episcopal School ($44k), Morris Animal Foundation ($28k), Wee Care Children's Enrichment Program Inc ($11k).

Does Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Rostan Family Foundation, Community Foundation of Burke County.

Where is Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation based?

Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation is based in NC.

Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation

Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$41k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$8k

Largest

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$92kPhilanthropy$88kAnimals$63kHealth$37kReligion$19kArts & Culture$12kRecreation & Sports$8kHuman Services$7kOther$0

02FY2023 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$666k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
OLIVE BRANCH MINISTRY	$8,000
UNC WILMINGTON	$4,000
MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION	$4,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY	$4,000
NC VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION	$4,000
WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM	$2,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING	$2,000
BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY	$2,000
FOUNDATION OF HOPE	$2,000
SHEPERD'S TABLE SOUP KITCHEN	$1,000
THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY	$1,000
EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL	$1,000
THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE COUNTY	$1,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH	$1,000
FRIENDS FOR ANIMALS	$600

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$236k · 31 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$236k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+29%

Still filing today

48%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationAnimalsHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

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MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +73%
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WEE CARE CHILDREN'S ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC
5× · 2019–2023 · $11k · revenue +265%
NC
NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +10%

Funded once

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UNC LINEBERGER CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $4k
FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD
one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +3%
CF
CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER
one grant, 2022 · $4k

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.

04Its 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.

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

Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy

Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals

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

Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals

North Carolina State University Foundation Inc

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education

Unc Health Foundation Inc

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.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 82 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/49

Grantees still filing

31/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$207,130Philanthropy$53,250Animals$33,802Education$25,820Health$14,100Arts & Culture$5,850Recreation & Sports$4,000

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

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC21.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth Harbison Carr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home