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The Caton Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Caton Family Charitable Foundation

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.

$97k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Religion$99kHealth$82kEducation$75kPhilanthropy$53kYouth Development$52kRecreation & Sports$39kHuman Services$20kArts & Culture$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL INC$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE$15,000
LUMBER RIVER UNITED WAY$12,500
SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE$10,000
SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC$5,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$2,500
ROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN$2,500
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES CATHOLIC PARISH OF LUMBERTO$2,000
VICTORY TRAIN INC$2,000
BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NORTH CAROLINA INC$1,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LUMBERTON NC INC$1,000
SAIL INITIATIVE$1,000
LUMBERTON CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $1k → 21%ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2k → 26%ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2k → 26%ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2k → 26%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$497k · 28 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
17

Total granted

$497k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+4%

Still filing today

68%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SR
    SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +36%
  • PA
    PACE ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +53%
  • LR
    LUMBERTON RESCUE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $17k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • RK
    ROBESON-LUMBERTON KIWANIS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • SI
    SOAR Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • HA
    HAITI AWAKE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +86%
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.

1
Robeson Health Care Corporation

Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.

Health
2
Robertson County Child Advocacy Cen

Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.

Crime & Legal
3
Rowan Economic Development Council

Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina

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4
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
5
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
6
Rowan County Youth Services Bureau Inc

Provide prevention & intervention services targeting at-risk youth in rowan county

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7
Robertson Charter School

The school operates as a public charter school for at risk children

Education
8
Tri-County Speaks Fka People Against Rape

Provide rape victim counseling,education, and advocacy services in the low country of south carolina.

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9
Alamance County Rescue Unit Inc

To provide specialty emergency services in a professional manner to the citizens and guests of alamance county, surrounding counties and the state of north carolina.

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10
Waccamaw Youth Center Inc

The waccamaw youth center is committed to providing the at-risk youth of south carolina with a safe and comforting place to call home.

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11
Kidspeace National Centers of Georgia

Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…

Human Services
12
The Glynn Community Crisis Center Inc

Providing emergency shelter and other services to persons battered and or abused, commonly referred to as domestic violence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools Robeson County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Haiti Awake Inc. 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

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/40
Grantees still filing
23/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $69,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE: $67,335 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKELUMBER RIVER UNITED WAY: $65,000 · OtherLUMBER RIVER UNITED WAYSAINT FRANCIS DE SALES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $27,549 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS DE SALES CATHOLIC CHURCHFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $23,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $13,500 · OtherROBESON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $13,000 · OtherLUMBERTON CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER INC: $11,250 · Other+16 more: $45,545 · Other+16 moreSOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $69,900 · HealthSOUTHEASTERN REGIO…LUMBERTON RESCUE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC: $16,500 · HealthLUMBERTON RESCUE A…+5 more: $2,750 · HealthAtlanta Speech School Inc: $25,000 · EducationAtlanta Speech…PACE ACADEMY INC: $18,500 · EducationPACE ACADEMY I…THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $12,500 · EducationTHE BOYCE L AN…ALZAR SCHOOL INC: $4,750 · EducationALZAR SCHOOL I…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC: $3,000 · EducationROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $2,500 · EducationATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $19,000 · Recreation & SportsPATH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsPeachtree Battle Alliance Neighborhood Improvement: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsAgape Community Center: $3,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsSOAR Inc: $3,000 · EnvironmentTREES ATLANTA INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $1,500 · EnvironmentGEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC: $500 · EnvironmentGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc: $250 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LUMBERTON NC: $6,745 · Youth DevelopmentROBESON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $6,350 · Animals
Other$336,179Health$89,150Education$68,750Recreation & Sports$36,500Environment$6,750Youth Development$6,745Animals$6,350

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $69,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLUMBER RIVER UNITED WAY: $65,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $19,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetPACE ACADEMY INC: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUMBERTON RESCUE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetROBESON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $13,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUMBERTON CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER INC: $11,250 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LUMBERTON NC: $6,745 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetROBESON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $6,350 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetROBESON-LUMBERTON KIWANIS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALZAR SCHOOL INC: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPeachtree Battle Alliance Neighborhood Improvement: $3,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAgape Community Center: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOAR Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORY TRAIN INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHAITI AWAKE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROBESON COUNTY COMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAIL INITIATIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE INC: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOANNA MCAFEE CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONROE CAMP AND RETREAT CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia Interfaith Power & Light Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCES EQUINE RESCUE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LUMBER RIVER UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds LUMBERTON RESCUE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBESON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LUMBERTON CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LUMBERTON NC ↗
  • Who funds ROBESON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBESON-LUMBERTON KIWANIS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZAR SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Peachtree Battle Alliance Neighborhood Improvement ↗
  • Who funds Agape Community Center ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOAR Inc ↗
  • Who funds VICTORY TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds HAITI AWAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE FEAR COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds ODYSSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBESON COUNTY COMMITTEE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds SAIL INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds DEKALB MEDICAL CENTER ↗

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.

North Carolina Commun…The Community Foundat…Lumber River United W…The Sartain Lanier Fa…Tull Charitable Found…The 2492 Fund HowellUnited Way of Greater…The Cannon Foundation…Georgia Power Foundat…Duke Energy FoundationThe Winston-Salem Fou…Foundation for the Ca…
North Carolina Community FoundationNC20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Lumber River United Way · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The 2492 Fund Howell · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Caton Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Caton Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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