Delaware · Private foundation
Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $118k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $118k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $106k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $102k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $132k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $104k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $107k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $107k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $106k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nc State Engineering Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Carying Place Inc | $54,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $48,300 | 9 | 0% |
| Pretty in Pink Foundation Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Amigos of Costa Rica Inc | $33,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Hope Community Church of Cary Inc | $32,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Designed For Joy | $31,700 | 8 | 1% |
| The V Foundation | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Duke University | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Mistler Charitable Trust · Knier Family Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation with peer funders
About Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation
- How much does Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation give?
- Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $117,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Human Services (13%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nc State Engineering Foundation Inc ($55k), The Carying Place Inc ($55k), Unc Health Foundation Inc ($50k).
- Does Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc.
- Where is Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation based?
- Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation is based in DE.
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