Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Carlson Cultural Trust
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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2023
- 7
- Grants FY2023
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Carlson Cultural Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Chester County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Carlson Cultural Trust named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $28k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $4,500
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 5
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Carlson Cultural Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 7 | $28k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $15k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $28k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $37k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford Arts Alliance Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Pratt Institute | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Rhode Island School of Design | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Ringling College of Art and Design Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Susquehanna University | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Avon Grove PTA | $5,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $4,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Maryland Institute | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($88k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carlson Cultural Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Carlson Cultural Trust?
Find your warmest path to Carlson Cultural Trust 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.
About Carlson Cultural Trust
- How much does Carlson Cultural Trust give?
- Carlson Cultural Trust reported 7 grants totaling $27,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Carlson Cultural Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (79%), Arts & Culture (10%), Education (10%).
- Who are Carlson Cultural Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Oxford Arts Alliance Inc ($20k), Pratt Institute ($13k), Rhode Island School of Design ($12k).
- Does Carlson Cultural Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carlson Cultural Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carlson Cultural Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Carlson Cultural Trust based?
- Carlson Cultural Trust is based in PA.
Play a game based on Carlson Cultural’s filings →