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Carlson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $160k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $854k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKE'S HOUSE LLC | $78,568 |
| SOUND WATERS INC | $50,000 |
| GIVE A LEG UP (GALUP) | $35,000 |
| DETROIT ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| STXBP1 FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMANDLA INC | $25,000 |
| LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE | $25,000 |
| WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $25,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $25,000 |
| HUMBLE DESIGN INC | $23,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC | $22,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,100 |
| THE CLEAR FUND DBA GIVEWELL | $20,000 |
| NEW JERSEY TUTORING CORPS INC | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $872k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
202 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2025, 122 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BHBROOKES HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $552k · revenue +323%
- SISOUNDWATERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $393k · revenue +61%
- BOBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP9× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +296%
Funded once
- BMBRAVEHEARTS MOVE NEW YORK INCone grant, 2020 · $150k
- CCCHATHAM CREATIVE ARTS INCUBATOR INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -36% · 30% of their budget
- DFDRESS FOR SUCCESS CHARITY NEW ORLEANSone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is The Cortney Gives Bak Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
285 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 285 of the 432 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Potomac Riverkeeper Network ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
- Who funds BRAVEHEARTS MOVE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
- Who funds MAG AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Child and Family Health Inc ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Trampled Rose Inc ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds CTC TEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP GROWING DETROIT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Strowd Roses Inc · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Shared Visions Foundation Inc · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Carlson Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- New Jersey Tutoring Corps Inc — 26% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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