· Private foundation
The David and Dorothy Carpenter Charitable Trust
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE DAVID AND DOROTHY CARPENTER CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY | $5,000 |
| EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| TROUPSBURG VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| MARY HOAR HUSTED SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
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 (FY17–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- WFWESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC7× · 2017–2023 · $42k · revenue +128%
- HWHOMES WITH HOPE6× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +35%
- FOFRIENDS OF MATHENY3× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- HIHOPE IGNITESone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
- CCCOMMUNITY CHURCH OF WOODHULLone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
Liberation programs' mission is to provide prevention, treatment, community outreach, and recovery services to help individuals and their families impacted by substance use and mental health conditions to foster hope and maintain wellness.
To provide comprehensive support services for individuals and families that are in need of everyday necessities due to insufficient financial resources or family instabilty. c.a.r.e.s. will offer food, clothing, job education and training…
The food bank's mission is to provide nutritious food to non-profit organizations that feed the hungry in darien, greenwich, new canaan, norwalk, stamford and wilton ct., while seeking to raise awareness of, and promote action to combat,…
To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the community hospice is a member of st. peter's health partners…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 49 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 WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MATHENY ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOC OF NY I ↗
- Who funds THE CALHOUN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Palmerton Area Historical Society ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARBON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Citizens Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good
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 David and Dorothy Carpenter Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% 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.
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