How much did CARLSON FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of CARLSON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

children's medicalshelterpalmettoboatingenglandplanned parenthoodtumor

2019

arts incubatorwomen'sfundacionmedicalafricacatholic

2020

pediatric cancerhumanematchngwaygreaterwomen'sorangeburg

2021

sanctuarypointvalleyministriesimprovementhopeurban

2022

safetyministriesimprovementurbanhopealzheimer'sraleigh

2023

ptaministriesclarksvilleurbanhopeafricaalzheimer's

2024

marchanimalalexandrialittleministriesclarksvilleart

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k60 grants · $162k
$10k–50k47 grants · $812k
$50k–250k3 grants · $160k

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$30M

Total assets

Largest grants

BROOKE'S HOUSE LLC$60,000
SOUND WATERS INC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
POTOMAC RIVERKEEPER INC$35,000
HUMBLE DESIGN INC$32,927
BOOTH HILL FATHERS CLUB INC$32,000
WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC$25,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$25,000
BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY$25,000
LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE$25,000
AMANDLA INC$20,000
YOUTH VILLAGES INC$20,000
THE CLEAR FUND DBA GIVEWELL$20,000
VOLUNTEER ALEXANDRIA INC$20,000
DETROIT ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY FOUNDATION$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $664k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.8M · 197 repeat orgs$975k to everyone else

197 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 119 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

197

194

Total granted

$7.8M

$837k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+54%

Still filing today

56%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

BH
BROOKE'S HOUSE LLC
8× · 2017–2024 · $473k · revenue +323%
SW
SOUND WATERS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $343k · revenue +66%
BO
BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +311%

Funded once

BM
BRAVEHEARTS MOVE NEW YORK
one grant, 2020 · $150k
CC
CHATHAM CREATIVE ARTS INCUBATORgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +61% · 30% of their budget
DF
DRESS FOR SUCCESS NEW ORLEANS
one grant, 2017 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

North Carolina Partnership for

Advance a high quality, comprehensive, accountable early childhood system that benefits each child in north carolina beginning with a healthy birth.

Education

Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health

Disability Rights North Carolina

Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.

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Cancer Research and Biostatistics

Cancer research and biostatistics (crab) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health

New North Carolina Project Action First

The new north carolina project's mission is to make politics represent the needs of north carolinians by investing in communities of color, expanding the engaged electorate and creating #lifelongvoters.

Civil Rights

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health

Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

We are ct's only locally owned media organization producing tv, radio, print and internet content with a mix of educational, new, public affairs, children's and entertainment programming.

Arts & Culture

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

Channel One Inc

Channel one strengthens food access and builds healthy communities.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Network for Good and the most unlike its peers is Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%2/231

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,334

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.

05the grantee network

219 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

212/219

Grantees still filing

173/219

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,091,436Health$932,813Human Services$696,605Education$665,775Environment$599,850International$491,560Youth Development$294,662

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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC67.1× affinity42 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Strowd Roses Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary · The Mary Duke Biddle 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

19get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM COMMUNITY LIBRARY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 561674431 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM COMMUNITY LIBRARY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 48% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Carlson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carlson Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CARLSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

219 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carlson Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CARLSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

219 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carlson Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph