· Private foundation
Carina Initiatives Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+11 grants · $7.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MATH STARS INC | $1,254,882 |
| THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC | $1,000,000 |
| AOPS INCORPORATED | $882,978 |
| 9 DOTS COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER | $850,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $830,280 |
| GLOBAL TALENT NETWORK FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| BRILLIANT WORLDWIDE INC | $720,000 |
| THE PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS | $504,760 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $470,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $324,053 |
| ANIMO GAMES STUDIO LLC | $264,000 |
| THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC | $220,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $200,000 |
| SIGMACAMP INC | $168,500 |
| NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC | $126,495 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of your 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.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 16 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- 9D9 DOTS COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +70% · 38% of their budget
- TATHE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +54%
- PFPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +80%
Funded once
- DHDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +93%
- MIMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYOFC OF ENGINEERING OUTREACH PROGRAMSone grant, 2023 · $250k
- MIMASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYOFFICE OF ENGINEERING OUTREACH PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $250k
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charter Fund Inc D/B/a Charter School Growth Fund and the most unlike its peers is Sigmacamp Inc. 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 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 66 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 9 DOTS COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TALENT & INNOVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds National Math Stars ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds ADDISCODER INC ↗
- Who funds MATHCOUNTS Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIGMACAMP INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds PROMYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE MATH CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING ↗
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: American Mathematical Society · Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good
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 Carina Initiatives 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Bureau of Economic Research Inc — 48% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% 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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