· Private foundation
Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| ST MATTHEW'S HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| STARABILITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RAM VETERANS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $10,000 |
| CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER | $10,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $7,061 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $5,650 |
| FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| ENGLISH IN ACTION | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL | $5,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $5,000 |
| ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET | $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 (FY19–24, $790k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +57% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $750k · revenue +87%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +83%
- RFROARING FORK CONSERVANCY6× · 2019–2024 · $98k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEone grant, 2019 · $50k
NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +21%- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORKgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +28%
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.
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To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 33 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 METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ROARING FORK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds STARABILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds NAPLES YACHT CLUB BLUE GAVEL SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds RAM VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds WALNUT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE BLUE GAVEL ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 Barbara and Franklin Carson Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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