A Virginia lottery winner immediately donated the entire sum of her winnings to three personally-important charities.

Winning $150,000 after matching 4 of the 5 numbers plus the Powerball number, a $1 dollar Powerplay addition saw her standard $50,000 prize tripled.

Carrie Edwards won the September 8th drawing, but received her gift yesterday.

According to WISTV , the first $50,000 gift was made to the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration , an organization supporting urgent research and family resources for those affected by early-onset dementia.

The donation was made under Carrie’s name and her late husband, Steve, who died of the disease.

“This cause is deeply personal,” she said, during what happened to be FTD Awareness Month. “I wanted this gift to shine a light on the

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