· Private foundation
The Carter Family Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY | $2,500 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| BRONCO BENCH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC | $2,000 |
| SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE | $2,000 |
| SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Carter Family Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +39%
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +12%
- BBBRONCO BENCH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +128%
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY-GREATER SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2017 · $1k
- WCWell Constructedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +9%
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.
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Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Health Trust and the most unlike its peers is Dicksathon. 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 59 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRONCO BENCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES FOR BRAIN INJURY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DICKSATHON ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC ↗
- Who funds Well Constructed ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Stephen C & Patricia A Schott Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Charity Bridge Fund · Bright Funds Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · The Catholic Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · American Gift Fund · Matt & Gretchen Dinapoli Family Foundation · Sosj Knights Hospitaller Priory of the Western USA
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 Carter Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% 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.