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Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$467k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionInternationalHealthOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$14k0%
FY20238$29k13%
FY20228$18k25%
FY20216$10k17%
FY20207$18k29%
FY20195$36k60%
FY20181$5k0%
FY20174$20kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$89kReligion$48kInternational$7kEducation$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
El Valor Corporation$45,00080%
Operation Smile Inc$12,00070%
Our Lady of Perpetual Help$11,9103n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10,00010%
Mercy Ships International$7,00060%
Church Health Center of Memphis Inc$6,50060%
Prison Evangelism Inc$4,00041%
Su Casa Family Ministries$3,50050%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

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About Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation

How much does Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation give?
Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $14,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (59%), Religion (32%), International (5%).
Who are Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: El Valor Corporation ($45k), Operation Smile Inc ($12k), Our Lady of Perpetual Help ($12k).
Does Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation based?
Carlos H Cantu Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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