How much does The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation give?

The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $2,885,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (22%), International (15%).

Who are The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Givedirectly Inc ($3.0M), State University of Iowa Foundation ($2.6M), Mercy Corps ($2.2M).

Does The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Carter Chapman Shreve 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 The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.

Where is The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation based?

The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation is based in DE.

The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation

The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Carter Chapman Shreve 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.

$2.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$600k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.6MHuman Services$3.3MInternational$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.2MAnimals$1.1MFood & Nutrition$650kCivil Rights$570kHealth$543kOther$0

02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k9 grants · $135k
$50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
$250k+3 grants · $1.6M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GIVEDIRECTLY INC	$600,000
MERCY CORPS	$500,000
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION	$500,000
THE SEATTLE FOUNDATION	$200,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES	$200,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION IN	$150,000
WORD GAME PLAYERS ORGANIZATION	$100,000
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION	$100,000
CARLETON COLLEGE	$100,000
ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION	$75,000
CATO INSTITUTE	$60,000
MIDCOAST HUMANE	$50,000
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY A COLORADO NON-PROFIT CO	$50,000
DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE	$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$25,000

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 (FY21–22, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14M · 31 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

Still filing today

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

GIVEDIRECTLY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +302%
SU
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
5× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +21%
MC
Mercy Corps
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +19%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $27k
WI
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
one grant, 2017 · $25k
AC
AMERICAN COMM FOR THE WEIZMANN INST OF SCIENCe INC
one grant, 2019 · $25k

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech

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

The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit

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

University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Health

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc; the most unlike its peers is Word Game Players Organization. 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

31 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. 31 of the 40 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)

30/31

Grantees still filing

23/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$3,597,000Human Services$3,250,000International$2,200,000Other$2,893,500Philanthropy$1,040,000Animals$1,005,000Food & Nutrition$650,000

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carter Chapman Shreve Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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

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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