· Private foundation
The James and Margaret Carreras Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THE JAMES AND MARGARET CARRERAS FOUNDATION’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| YWCA RICHMOND | $10,000 |
| RONAL MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF R | $10,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOME | $10,000 |
| BETTER HOUSING COALITION | $10,000 |
| M4K RICHMOND | $10,000 |
| GREATER RICHMOND SCAN | $10,000 |
| SAINT PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| UGANDA RURAL FUND | $6,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA REPERATORY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| MASSEY CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| CROSSOVER HEALTHCARE MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| ST EDWARD-EPIPHANY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- AJANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL2× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +469%
- VRVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE4× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +4%
- RFRICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SEST ELIZABETH'S CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $100k
- SJSAINT JOSEPH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $10k
- BSBENEDICTINE SISTERS OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2019 · $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.
Rise richmond's mission is to cultivate the god-given potential of students in richmond's east end through learning opportunities that equip them to flourish.
Committed to providing a quality educational experience for each child, creating an environment that nurtures individual intellectual, emotional, creative, spiritual, and physical gifts within a community
To champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life.
To foster consideration and discussion of christianity
Provide direct support to Cristo Rey Richmond High School, Inc.
Renew Richmond strives to build healthier, more self-empowered communities by involving local youth in agriculture and environmental sustainability. We do this by partnering with local public schools.
Richmond residential services strives to provide person-centered care for individuals with diverse abilities and support needs, facilitating choice, growth and community participation
Richmond Christian School exists to support families in their Biblical responsibility to nurture and train their children. Thus, Richmond Christian School provides opportunities which allow students to realize their God-given potential.
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
Regents' mission is to provide a classical and christian education, founded upon and informed by a biblical worldview, that equips our students to know, love, and practice that which is true, good, and the beautiful and challenges them to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Cedar Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 37 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 ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS LTD ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds M4K RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds BENEDICTINE SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RWANDAN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ILLUME FAMILY RECOVERY 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: The Community Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Pauley Family Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Tesco Foundation
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 James and Margaret Carreras Foundation 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.
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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