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Carat 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.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Religion$67kEmployment$11kHousing & Shelter$5kEducation$4kInternational$3kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$2kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$1,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$293k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Henderson Hills Baptist Church$12,000
Come and See Foundation Inc$12,000
Tbd Creatives Inc$11,409
Galerie Du Saint Inc$10,000
Launch Global$6,000
Salt and Light Leadership Training$4,000
Positive Tomorrows Inc$2,500
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma$2,400
Grace School of Theology$1,500
Agape International Missions$1,239
Infant Crisis Services$1,236
World Vision Foundation$570
Human Coalition$535
Compassion International Incorporat$516
Ballet Oklahoma Inc$515
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Human Coalition: $535 → 5%Human Coalition: $321 → 5%Infant Crisis Services: $1k → 16%Infant Crisis Services: $309 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$70k · 13 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$70k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+73%

Still filing today

62%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionInternationalOther

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

  • LG
    LAUNCH GLOBAL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +117%
  • PT
    POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +23%
  • REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAULS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +73%
  • MO
    MINISTRIES OF JESUS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
5
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
6
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
7
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

8
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
9
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
10
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.

Religion
11
Christian Leadership Alliance

Christian leadership alliance exists to equip and unite leaders called to transform the world for christ.

12
Christian Leaders for Africa Inc

Christian leaders from africa promotes christian theological training & education of local leaders in kenya and throughout africa. it invests in undergraduate, masters, and phd scholarships, faculty support for african professors and…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bibleproject and the most unlike its peers is Tbd Creatives Inc. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COME AND SEE FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 · OtherCOME AND SEE FOUNDATION INCHENDERSON HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH — $15,500 · OtherHENDERSON HILLS BAPTIST CHURCHGalerie Du Saint Inc — $10,000 · OtherGalerie Du Saint Inc+5 more — $3,696 · Other+5 moreLAUNCH GLOBAL — $8,000 · ReligionLAUNCH GLOBALSALT AND LIGHT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC — $7,200 · ReligionSALT AND LIGHT LEAD…MINISTRIES OF JESUS INC — $1,000 · ReligionMINISTRIES OF JESUS…+1 more — $200 · ReligionTBD Creatives Inc — $11,409 · EmploymentTBD Creatives…ST PAULS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $3,500 · EducationGRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY — $2,000 · EducationPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC — $2,800 · Food & NutritionINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC — $1,545 · Human ServicesHUMAN COALITION — $856 · Human Services
Other$53,196Religion$16,400Employment$11,409Education$5,500Youth Development$5,000Food & Nutrition$2,800Human Services$2,401

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTBD Creatives Inc — $11,409 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetSALT AND LIGHT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INC — $7,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPOSITIVE TOMORROWS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST PAULS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC — $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC — $1,545 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAgape International Missions — $1,446 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINISTRIES OF JESUS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN COALITION — $856 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET OKLAHOMA INC — $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Servant FoundationKS17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Carat Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Carat Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Carat Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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