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Carlton Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEERFIELDWINDSOR SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| ARTESIAN ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| ALBANY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART | $2,000 |
| ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| KNOX MARTIN FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| YMCA | $1,000 |
| LIBERTY HOUSE | $1,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $1,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF ALBANY | $1,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC | $1,000 |
| PHOEBE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KEEP ALBANYDOUGHERTY BEAUTIFUL | $1,000 |
| ALBANY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| ALBANY TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AHALBANY HUMANE SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +89%
- PFPHOEBE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +132%
- FRFLINT RIVERQUARIUM INC3× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $3k
- GIGIRLS INCone grant, 2017 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
To encourage preservation, education , research, and interest in the history of Albion
Historical museums and genelogical records
The organization rents group homes to individuals with disabilities.
The organization rents group homes to individuals with disabilities.
To Preserve the Governors Mansion
The primary purpose of the foundation is to advocate and support the preservation and restoration of historic building in the albany, new york area.
The mission of the organization is to improve knowledge, patient care and techniques in the oral and maxillofacial surgery sphere. few charitable organizations exist within the intersecting medical and dental realm of oral and…
The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Albany Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Darton Health Professions Foundatio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 28 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
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 THE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA ↗
- Who funds ALBANY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PHOEBE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLINT RIVERQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP ALBANY DOUGHERTY BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds ALBANY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEWAY RECOVERY RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds DARTON HEALTH PROFESSIONS FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HOUSE ↗
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: W B Haley Foundation 4655000132 · The McCormack Foundation · Hillard Family Charitable Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Carlton 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.
- Liberty House — 23% 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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