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The Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund at a glance

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The Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
80
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$144kHealth$100kHuman Services$81kReligion$76kInternational$72kFood & Nutrition$42kHousing & Shelter$15kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL$5,000
ST BRIDGET CHURCH$4,000
ELK HILL FARM$4,000
NORTH STAR ACADEMY$3,500
MONASTERY OF THE VISITATION$3,000
GOOCHLAND CARES$3,000
CRISTO REY RICHMOND HIGH SCHOOL$2,000
MCV FOUNDATION$2,000
UVA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,000
ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL$2,000
ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL$2,000
KINDNESS 4 KATE$1,500
HOME OF LOVE ORPHANAGE$1,500
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$1,000
OPERATION HEALING FORCES$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%KINDNESS 4 KATE: $250 → 12%PALS PROGRAMS: $500 → 6%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $1k → 12%GOOD NEIGHBOR VILLAGE: $500 → 9%FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $1k → 15%KINDNESS 4 KATE: $250 → 12%PALS PROGRAMS: $500 → 6%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $1k → 12%KINDNESS 4 KATE: $250 → 12%PALS PROGRAMS: $500 → 6%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $1k → 12%FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $1k → 15%PALS PROGRAMS: $500 → 6%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $1k → 12%PALS PROGRAMS: $500 → 6%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $1k → 12%PALS PROGRAMS: $500 → 6%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $1k → 12%SHALOM FARMS: $1k → 7%PALS PROGRAMS: $500 → 6%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $1k → 12%EMPOWERHOUSE: $300 → 8%FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $1k → 15%FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $1k → 15%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $2k → 9%FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $1k → 15%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $1k → 9%FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $1k → 15%LIGHTHOUSE RVA: $300 → 7%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $1k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $1k → 9%FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $1k → 15%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $1k → 9%FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $800 → 15%FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $700 → 15%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $1k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $1k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $500 → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $500 → 9%KINDNESS 4 KATE: $2k → 22%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
ND
MN
NY
MA
PA
CT
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$571k · 90 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

90 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
22

Total granted

$571k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

58%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterYouth 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

  • CI
    CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +3%
  • G
    GoochlandCares
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +84%
  • EH
    ELK HILL FARM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • WK
    WEE KIRK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH LINVIL
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • BS
    BENEDICTINE SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • S3
    SOAR 365
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +20%
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
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.

Health
2
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
3
New Schools for Virginia

New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.

Education
4
Good Shepherd Episcopal School

The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…

Education
5
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
6
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
8
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
9
Vcu Health Childrens Services at Brook Road

Vcu health children's services at brook road (csbr), fka crippled children's hospital, is a resource and provider of specialized medical services customized to meet the specific needs of children and their families.

Health
10
The Williams School

The williams school builds with each child the foundation for academic, moral and social success. a williams school student embodies confidence, integrity and a love of learning.

—
11
Chip of Virginia

Chip of virginia administers and monitors a network of 7 agencies in 27 virginia localities who work with low-income families to assure that children from birth to age 6 receive the health care necessary for them to lead healthy lives,…

—
12
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christophers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

60 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. 60 of the 118 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
45/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELK HILL FARM INC: $35,200 · OtherELK HILL FARM INCST BRIDGET CHURCH: $34,800 · OtherST BRIDGET CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $28,650 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAMONASTERY OF THE VISITATION: $22,900 · OtherMONASTERY OF THE VISITATIONUVA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $17,650 · OtherUVA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATIONST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL: $11,000 · OtherUVA RECTOR AND VISITORS FUND: $10,800 · OtherHOME OF LOVE ORPHANAGE: $9,900 · OtherGOOCHLAND FIRE RESCUE 3: $9,700 · Other+67 more: $102,250 · Other+67 moreST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $23,000 · EducationST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOO…MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $22,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA …ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $11,500 · EducationANNA JULIA COOPER SCHO…ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10,200 · EducationST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $9,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLSUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $9,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMONDNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $8,100 · EducationNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INCCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $7,400 · EducationCristo Rey Richmond Hi…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+7 more: $8,450 · Education+7 moreGoochlandCares: $35,600 · HealthGoochlandCaresSHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION: $30,600 · HealthSHELTERING ARMS…THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $4,500 · HealthTHE CROSS-OVER …MIRACLEFEET: $3,800 · Health+4 more: $2,900 · HealthCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $57,432 · InternationalCHILDFUND IN…HELP THE HELPLESS: $3,000 · International+2 more: $1,700 · InternationalFAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $8,500 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $8,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $4,000 · Human ServicesPALS Programs: $3,500 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINC: $2,600 · Human ServicesKINDNESS4KATE: $2,500 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBOR VILLAGE: $1,900 · Human Services+3 more: $1,800 · Human ServicesBLUE SKY FUND: $2,550 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentFEED MORE INC: $3,800 · Food & Nutrition
Other$282,850Education$113,650Health$77,400International$62,132Human Services$40,300Youth Development$4,050Food & Nutrition$3,800

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 budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $57,432 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGoochlandCares: $35,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $35,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION: $30,600 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $11,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT: $8,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC: $8,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $7,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCommonwealth Catholic Charities: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLEFEET: $3,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $3,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPALS Programs: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHELP THE HELPLESS: $3,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFREDERICKSBURG ACADEMY: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC: $2,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE SKY FUND: $2,550 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKINDNESS4KATE: $2,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $2,150 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $2,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR VILLAGE: $1,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $1,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGOOCHLAND CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1,900 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY HOMES INC: $1,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Virginia Home: $1,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER HOUSING COALITION: $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $1,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $1,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENRICHMOND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELDERHOMES CORPORATION: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTOPHERS INC: $700 over 6y, 0.0% 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 CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
  • Who funds GoochlandCares ↗
  • Who funds ELK HILL FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds FAIRY GODMOTHER PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSTAR ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds PALS Programs ↗
  • Who funds HELP THE HELPLESS ↗

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.

The Mary Morton Parso…The Community Foundat…Herndon FoundationShelton H Short Jr Tr…The Pauley Family Fou…The William H - John …Richard S Reynolds Fo…Estes Foundation Co M…Dominion Energy Chari…Virginia Sargeant Rey…Wilbur Moreland Haven…Annabella R Jenkins F…
The Mary Morton Parsons FoundationVA50.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Annabella R Jenkins 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 Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report 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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How do I get to The Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Charles M Caravati Foundation Fund 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 118 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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