· Private foundation
The Beirne Carter Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $810k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIA | $250,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF RICHMOND | $250,000 |
| LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN | $150,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $150,000 |
| RESTORATION HOUSING | $105,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & CULTURE | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JAMES RIVER PARK | $55,000 |
| ROANOKE AREA MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC | $50,000 |
| BEIRNE CARTER CENTER FOR IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH | $50,000 |
| ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NORTH CROSS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $336k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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 +51% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $763k 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
- TPTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA7× · 2018–2024 · $325k · revenue +58%
- JRJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +169%
- AJANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $245k · revenue +623%
Funded once
- BGBOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +822% · 51% of their budget
- PFPATHFINDERS FOR GREENWAY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $175k · revenue +554%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND VCUone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
Vcn is a facilitator of strategic action, a resource for network partners statewide, and a constant preservation presence in richmond. playing a unique role in virginia's conservation community, vcn helps the community speak with one…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
The endowment's mission is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital, expertise, and resources to fund projects and programs that encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, improve water quality,…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The mission of washington heritage museums is to preserve, promote and maintain its five 18th century properties in fredericksburg, virginia and develop dynamic educational resources and programs to engage and inspire the intrest of…
The museum connects people to nature by delivering educational classes, programs, exhibits, events and demonstrations. staff and volunteers engage learners of all ages on a 23 acre campus setting. indoor and outdoor learning opportunities…
Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Richmond Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 110 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 North Cross School ↗
- Who funds Carilion Clinic ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds Children's Museum of Richmond ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS FOR GREENWAY INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Area Ministries ↗
- Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY FREE CLINIC OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC RICHMOND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Tesco Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Robins Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Commonwealth Foundations · Shelton H Short Jr Trust
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 The Beirne 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital 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.