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Carina Rush Foundation at a glance

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Carina Rush 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.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$29kAnimals$21kEducation$15kArts & Culture$11kPhilanthropy$10kHealth$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$23k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREWSTER FIRE DEPARTMENT$12,860
PAJAMA PROGRAM$5,373
YALE UNIVERSITY$5,000
REGENT UNIVERSITY$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$3,021
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,115
SITUATION PROJECT$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,090
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$1,000
THE LANDMARKS PRESERVATION SOCIETY$1,000
TUDOR CITY GREENS$358
Individual grant recipient$257
TEMPLE BETH EL$150
GRACE FARMS$125
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GALLOPNYC: $3k → 13%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $9k → 17%GALLOP NYC: $3k → 13%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $8k → 17%GALLOPNYC: $2k → 13%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $5k → 17%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
NJ
CT
TN
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Carina Rush Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Carina Rush Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$102k · 12 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$102k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+11%

Still filing today

58%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BF
    Brewster Fire Department Inc
    3× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +62%
  • BS
    BARN SANCTUARY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +37%
  • GA
    GIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BT
    BREWSTER THEATER COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +87%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • RW
    ROGERS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +119%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
2
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
3
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
4
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
5
Staten Island University Hospital

Staten island university hospital is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
6
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
7
Plainview Hospital

Plainview hospital is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
8
Northern Westchester Hospital Association

Northern westchester hospital association is an affiliate within northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care;…

Health
9
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
10
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
11
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
12
Hospice Care Network

Our mission is to enable persons to live with peace and dignity in a caring environment during the final stages of life by offering care and comfort to both them and to those whom they share their lives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tudor City Greens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYREGENT UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherREGENT UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYALE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYOUTH MENTAL HEALTH: $4,120 · OtherYOUTH MENTAL HEALTHUniversity of Michigan: $3,021 · OtherUniversity of MichiganTHE LANDMARKS PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $2,000 · Other+13 more: $8,997 · Other+13 moreBEYOND BEDTIME INC: $27,170 · Human ServicesBEYOND BEDTIME INCGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $7,182 · Human ServicesGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS…Brewster Fire Department Inc: $18,060 · Public Safety & DisasterBrewster Fire Depart…NETWORK FOR GOOD: $8,518 · Public Safety & DisasterNETWORK FOR GOODBARN SANCTUARY: $17,472 · AnimalsBARN SANCTUARYROGERS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION INC: $1,250 · AnimalsROGERS WILDLIF…+2 more: $93 · AnimalsTHE SITUATION PROJECT INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureBREWSTER THEATER COMPANY INC: $5,125 · Arts & CultureNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,615 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $528 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $204 · HealthCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $1,100 · Philanthropy
Other$48,138Human Services$34,352Public Safety & Disaster$26,578Animals$18,815Arts & Culture$10,625Health$4,347Philanthropy$1,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEYOND BEDTIME INC: $27,170 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBrewster Fire Department Inc: $18,060 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBARN SANCTUARY: $17,472 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $8,518 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $7,182 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SITUATION PROJECT INC: $5,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetREGENT UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,615 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $3,021 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROGERS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUDOR CITY GREENS INC: $608 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $528 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARKS PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF SOUTHEAST: $500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $415 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $204 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC: $43 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carina Rush Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carina Rush Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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