Virginia · Private foundation
The Beirne Carter Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Beirne Carter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $1.5M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.6M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $1.3M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $1.4M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $1.3M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $1.4M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Cross School | $1,670,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Carilion Clinic | $1,000,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia | $325,000 | 7 | 1% |
| James River Association | $295,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Botanical Garden of the Piedmont | $250,000 | 1 | 51% |
| Children's Museum of Richmond | $250,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Anna Julia Cooper School | $245,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Westminster Canterbury Foundation | $216,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Pathfinders for Greenway Inc | $175,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc | $165,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Beirne Carter Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Beirne Carter Foundation
- How much does The Beirne Carter Foundation give?
- The Beirne Carter Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,485,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Beirne Carter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Education (28%), Environment (16%).
- Who are The Beirne Carter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: North Cross School ($1.7M), Carilion Clinic ($1.0M), The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia ($325k).
- Does The Beirne Carter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Beirne Carter Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Beirne Carter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, Richard S Reynolds Foundation.
- Where is The Beirne Carter Foundation based?
- The Beirne Carter Foundation is based in VA.
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