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Carlton Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$493k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Carlton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving16$25k0%
FY202317$27k18%
FY202216$27k6%
FY202116$27k6%
FY202017$27k29%
FY201816$26k6%
FY201717$29kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$43kHealth$40kArts & Culture$19kEnvironment$16kCommunity Improvement$16kAnimals$14kYouth Development$10kReligion$9kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Carlton Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Albany Museum of Art Incorpora$14,00070%
Albany Humane Society Inc$14,00070%
Phoebe Foundation Inc$13,50070%
Flint Riverquarium Inc$9,00030%
St Pauls Episcopal Church$9,0007n/a
Operation Smile Inc$7,00070%
Keep Albany Dougherty Beautiful$7,00070%
Albany Symphony Association Inc$5,00050%
Graceway Recovery Residence Inc$3,50040%
Darton Health Professions Foundatio$3,00021%
Liberty House$2,00020%
Albany Womans Club$1,0002n/a

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carlton Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Albany Museum of Art Incorpora: $14,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAlbany Humane Society Inc: $14,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPhoebe Foundation Inc: $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFlint Riverquarium Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKeep Albany Dougherty Beautiful: $7,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAlbany Symphony Association Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGraceway Recovery Residence Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDarton Health Professions Foundatio: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLiberty House: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

W B Haley Foundation 4655000132GA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: W B Haley Foundation 4655000132 · The McCormack Foundation · Hillard Family Charitable Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Carlton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carlton Foundation 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 Carlton Foundation

How much does Carlton Foundation give?
Carlton Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Carlton Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (21%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Carlton Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Albany Museum of Art Incorpora ($14k), Albany Humane Society Inc ($14k), Phoebe Foundation Inc ($14k).
Does Carlton Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carlton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carlton Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include W B Haley Foundation 4655000132, The McCormack Foundation, Hillard Family Charitable Trust.
Where is Carlton Foundation based?
Carlton Foundation is based in AL.

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 28 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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