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Carman Family Charitable 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.

$500
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$3kEducation$2kReligion$1kCrime & Legal$1kYouth Development$595Health$350Human Services$25
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$210
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMPDEN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $25 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5k · 6 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$5k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+114%

Still filing today

67%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GL
    GLASGOW LANDS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue -2027%
  • BP
    Bay Path University
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +43%
  • HC
    HAMPDEN COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $750 · revenue -49%

Funded once

  • TE
    TEMPLE EMANU EL
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • CC
    Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $700 · revenue +114%
  • FC
    FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2017 · $350
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE EMANU EL: $1,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU ELHAMPDEN COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC: $750 · OtherHAMPDEN COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INCWESTERN MASS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $595 · OtherWESTERN MASS COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAHAMPDEN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: $500 · OtherHAMPDEN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST: $350 · OtherFIRST CHURCH OF CHRISTTOWN OF LONGMEADOW (MUSIC PROGRAM): $200 · OtherTOWN OF LONGMEADOW (MUSIC PROGRAM)THE SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $175 · Other+3 more: $126 · OtherGLASGOW LANDS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL: $1,900 · Arts & CultureGLASGOW LANDS SCOTTISH FESTIVALCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc: $700 · Arts & CultureCultural Council of Palm Beach Count…Bay Path University: $1,500 · EducationBay Path UniversityBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $150 · HealthNETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $25 · Human Services
Other$3,696Arts & Culture$2,600Education$1,500Health$150Human Services$25

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBay Path University: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPDEN COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC: $750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 GLASGOW LANDS SCOTTISH FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds Bay Path University ↗
  • Who funds HAMPDEN COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
  • Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carman Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carman Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Bay Path University: 3% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Carman Family Charitable 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.

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 15 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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