· 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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RED RAVEN ART COMPANY | $7,500 |
| OXFORD ART ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $4,500 |
| RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN | $4,500 |
| PRATT INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| PA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS | $2,500 |
| MARYLAND INST COLLEGE OF ART | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 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
Backed again, and grew
- PIPRATT INSTITUTE4× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +41%
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN4× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +8%- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC3× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- AGAVON GROVE PTAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +40%
Rochester Institute of Technologygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +61%- SCSAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Chester County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oxford Arts Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AVON GROVE PTA ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carlson Cultural Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carlson Cultural Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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