How much does Carleton College give?

Carleton College reported 8 itemized grants totaling $1,750,045, out of $69,812,098 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Carleton College fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Environment (22%), Public Benefit (15%).

Who are Carleton College's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northfield Public Schools ($1.0M), City of Northfield ($719k), University of Connecticut ($428k).

Does Carleton College fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Carleton College?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, Tulsa Community Foundation, Folds of Honor Foundation.

Where is Carleton College based?

Carleton College is based in MN.

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Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, CARLETON COLLEGE is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. Nationally recognized as the nation's top college for undergraduate teaching, carleton is known for its academic rigor, intellectual curiosity, and sense of…

$70M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2025: 6
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $110,594
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 18; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $2.0B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Carleton College funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	8	$1.8M	38%
FY2024	6	$482k	33%
FY2023	7	$257k	43%
FY2022	4	$156k	0%
FY2021	4	$153k	25%
FY2020	4	$133k	25%
FY2019	9	$222k	22%
FY2018	18	$479k	6%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.3MEnvironment$1.1MPublic Benefit$719kScience & Tech$564kHealth$157k

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
Northfield Public Schools	$1,000,000	1	n/a
City of Northfield	$719,000	9	n/a
University of Connecticut	$427,735	2	n/a
North Carolina State University	$291,101	2	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$236,522	4	n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison	$170,256	2	n/a
University of Washington	$166,491	5	n/a
University of Wisconsin	$159,981	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$157,041	4	n/a
Biodiversity Research Institute	$134,207	2	1%

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All grantees of Carleton College by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Northfield Public Schools	$1,000,000	1	n/a
City of Northfield	$719,000	9	n/a
University of Connecticut	$427,735	2	n/a
North Carolina State University	$291,101	2	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$236,522	4	n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison	$170,256	2	n/a
University of Washington	$166,491	5	n/a
University of Wisconsin	$159,981	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$157,041	4	n/a
Biodiversity Research Institute	$134,207	2	1%
University of California Davis	$130,888	3	n/a
Savannah State University	$80,495	2	n/a
Central Washington University	$77,821	3	n/a
Williams College	$72,800	5	0%
Shippensburg University	$49,827	2	n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$49,038	3	n/a
Claflin University	$48,271	2	0%
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Term	$46,890	2	n/a
The National Council for Science and the Environment	$45,187	3	2%
University of Texas at El Paso	$43,069	2	n/a
The Board of Directors of Wittenberg College	$41,322	1	0%
University of Northern Colorado	$40,881	1	n/a
The Jackson Laboratory	$38,645	1	0%
Pasadena City College	$38,640	3	n/a
Middle Tennessee State University	$36,663	1	n/a
University of San Diego	$35,547	1	0%
Chico State Enterprises	$30,671	2	0%
Earthscope Consortium	$24,874	2	0%
The Corporation of Mercer University	$20,579	1	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$18,435	1	n/a
Western Washington University	$18,145	1	n/a
Grand Valley State University	$17,150	1	n/a
Pomona College	$16,655	2	0%
South Dakota State University	$12,929	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$10,710	2	n/a
Gustavus Adolphus College	$10,405	1	0%
University Enterprises Corporation at Csusb	$9,975	1	0%
Unavco Inc	$9,500	2	0%
American Geophysical Union	$6,702	2	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carleton College supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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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.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · World Learning Inc · American Chemical Society · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Carleton College

How much does Carleton College give?: Carleton College reported 8 itemized grants totaling $1,750,045, out of $69,812,098 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Carleton College fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Environment (22%), Public Benefit (15%).
Who are Carleton College's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northfield Public Schools ($1.0M), City of Northfield ($719k), University of Connecticut ($428k).
Does Carleton College fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carleton College?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, Tulsa Community Foundation, Folds of Honor Foundation.
Where is Carleton College based?: Carleton College is based in MN.