· Private foundation
Carlton Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| DEERFIELDWINDSOR SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| ARTESIAN ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ALBANY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 28 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 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carlton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carlton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Liberty House: 23% of income from government
How this is measured
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