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W P Carey Foundation Inc at a glance

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W P Carey Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25M
Granted FY2024still arriving
141
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$7.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$92MHealth$13MArts & Culture$5.4MInternational$1.2MAnimals$1.1MEnvironment$661kReligion$530kHuman Services$406kOther$0
02FY2024 · 141 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k96 grants · $271k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $655k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $225k
  • $250k+8 grants · $23M
$5,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$514M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$7,500,000
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL$5,107,500
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$3,500,000
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA$1,002,500
GILMAN SCHOOL$527,095
CALVERT SCHOOL$526,650
POMFRET SCHOOL$250,000
CAREY INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL GOOD$72,500
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MEDICINE$52,356
ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY$50,000
BEACON UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CONGREGATION$50,000
STUDENT SPONSOR PARTNERS$46,050
UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$45,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION$40,000
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 (FY20–24, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $4k → 14%ISLAND HARVEST: $500 → 7%IRVINGTON CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $2k → 9%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $13k → 20%THE INN BETWEEN: $8k → 8%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $10k → 14%MEADOWLANDS YMCA: $500 → 7%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $40k → 6%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $3k → 14%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $13k → 20%EDUCARE DC: $4k → 14%MEADOWLANDS YMCA: $256 → 7%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%THE SHEPHERD FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%BLACK FAIRY GODMOTHER FOUNDATION: $250 → 7%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $13k → 6%THE SHEPHERD FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $13k → 6%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $500 → 17%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $13k → 6%ARMY RANGER LEAD THE WAY FUND: $3k → 6%SEPHARDIC BIKUR HOLIM: $518 → 20%MADISON EAGLE CHRISTMAS FUND: $2k → 4%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $263 → 17%MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC: $400 → 19%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $20k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $540 → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $500 → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $263 → 17%SINGLE PARENT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $208 → 17%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

ME
VT
NH
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$63M · 153 repeat orgs$33M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

153 repeat relationships: 90 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

153
135

Total granted

$63M
$33M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+14%

Still filing today

68%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $19M · revenue +42%
  • GS
    GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +111%
  • CS
    CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • U
    UOP
    one grant, 2021 · $14M
  • A
    ASU
    one grant, 2021 · $6.6M
  • J
    JHU
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Kindle Hill Foundation. 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

230 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. 230 of the 339 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
226/230
Grantees still filing
166/230
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $20,342,922 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYUOP: $13,502,500 · OtherUOPNEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $12,417,500 · OtherNEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALASU: $6,632,983 · OtherASUJHU: $5,000,000 · OtherJHUUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $4,000,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND+113 more: $6,001,763 · Other+113 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $34,964,252 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $18,509,999 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $2,078,668 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $2,066,650 · Education+35 more: $1,781,492 · EducationHILLTOWN COMMONS INC: $1,088,000 · International+6 more: $78,045 · InternationalZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,055,000 · AnimalsMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $350,000 · EnvironmentIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentMONMOUTH CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Environment+2 more: $16,000 · EnvironmentMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $97,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF CONKLING HALL INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureTIBET HOUSE US INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY THEATER PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $50,250 · Arts & CultureBEYOND CELIAC: $75,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $70,500 · HealthTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $50,000 · HealthGBMC HEALTHCARE INC: $25,000 · HealthFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $25,000 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $20,000 · HealthCANCERCRUSHER FOUNDATION INC: $13,750 · Health+7 more: $55,650 · Health
Other$67,897,768Education$59,401,061International$1,166,045Animals$1,055,000Environment$405,000Arts & Culture$347,750Health$334,900

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $34,964,252 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $18,509,999 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $2,078,668 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $2,066,650 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetHILLTOWN COMMONS INC: $1,088,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,055,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $505,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $350,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $342,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $113,050 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $103,284 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $102,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $97,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND CELIAC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company: $75,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $70,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaerville Library: $70,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF CONKLING HALL INC: $70,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWORK TO RIDE INC: $62,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG: $60,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Pennington School: $57,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK OPEN CENTER INC: $55,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $52,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY: $51,525 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCROQUET FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR ONE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY OF BALTIMORE CITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $44,668 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFERGUSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $31,113 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $30,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $26,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGBMC HEALTHCARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 5y, 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HILLTOWN COMMONS INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND CELIAC ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaerville Volunteer Fire Company ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaerville Library ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CONKLING HALL INC ↗
  • Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WORK TO RIDE INC ↗

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…T Rowe Price Program …Brown Advisory Charit…Baltimore Community F…Buckingham School Fre…First Eagle Investmen…The United Way of Cen…The Thomas F & Clemen…Thomas Wilson Sanitar…France-Merrick Founda…Ac and Penney Hubbard…The Charles T Bauer C…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY29.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Buckingham School Frederick County Md · First Eagle Investments Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Thomas F & Clementine L Mullan Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · The Charles T Bauer Charitable 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 W P Carey Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W P Carey Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 270%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Maryland Family Network Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Land Preservation Trust Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Maryland Historical Society Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Homeless Solutions Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Beacon College Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
27get no government money at all
46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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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Find your warmest path to W P Carey Foundation Inc 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 339 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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