· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY | $5,000 |
| EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| TROUPSBURG VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| MARY HOAR HUSTED SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The David and Dorothy Carpenter Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David and Dorothy Carpenter Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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