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Carmichael Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$143k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 25
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Carmichael Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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 arriving27$128k11%
FY202324$127k25%
FY202219$102k5%
FY202120$103k10%
FY202025$122kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$235kFood & Nutrition$80kAnimals$79kHealth$72kPhilanthropy$40kHousing & Shelter$25kRecreation & Sports$25kPublic Benefit$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRegional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetExchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Oklahoma Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHope Center of Edmond Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEdmond Mobile Meals Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetInfant Crisis Services Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFree to Live Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPeppers Ranch Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNeads Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Center Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPositive Tomorrows Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFurever Friends: $15,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bella Foundation Inc Spca: $12,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAssistance League of Tulsa Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Guide Dog Center for the Blind: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTulsa Debate League Incorporated: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFriends for Folks Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetUniversity of Oklahoma Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReboot Recovery Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPivot Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 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 28.

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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.

Oklahoma City Community Foundation IncOK21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Harris Foundation Inc · The Magnolia Charitable Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Arvest Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Bowen Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Sarkeys Foundation · McLaughlin Family 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 Carmichael Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carmichael 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 Carmichael Foundation

How much does Carmichael Foundation give?
Carmichael Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $143,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Carmichael Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (38%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Animals (13%).
Who are Carmichael Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc ($50k), Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Oklahoma Inc ($50k), Hope Center of Edmond Inc ($40k).
Does Carmichael Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carmichael Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carmichael Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc, Harris Foundation Inc, The Magnolia Charitable Foundation.
Where is Carmichael Foundation based?
Carmichael Foundation is based in OK.

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 39 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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