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Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$235k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$5.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentReligionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$210k20%
FY202313$246k23%
FY202214$286k14%
FY202114$256k36%
FY20208$273k0%
FY201918$272kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$810kEducation$160kInternational$135kHealth$131kEnvironment$130kPhilanthropy$77kArts & Culture$68kHuman Services$60kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
NC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Ministries Inc: $750,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRoaring Fork Conservancy: $97,594 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetEnglish in Action: $55,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAspen Santa Fe Ballet: $42,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetStarability Foundation Inc: $40,466 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFriedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChallenge Aspen: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCaptains for Clean Water Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTheatre Aspen: $20,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNaples Yacht Club Blue Gavel Scholarship Scholarship Fund: $20,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetRam Veterans Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Roaring Fork: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Pediatric Cancer Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Botanical Garden Inc: $7,701 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $5,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWalnut Hills High School Alumni Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Order of the Blue Gavel: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTampa Bay Performing Arts Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPace Center for Girlsinc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Aspen Community FoundationCO15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · The Thrift Shop · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Arches Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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Find your warmest path to Barbara and Franklin Carson Family 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.

About Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc

How much does Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc give?
Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $235,211 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (50%), Education (10%), International (8%).
Who are Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Metropolitan Ministries Inc ($750k), Samaritan's Purse ($135k), Roaring Fork Conservancy ($98k).
Does Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, The Thrift Shop, Aspen Business Center Foundation.
Where is Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc based?
Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 33 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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