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Carnahan Family Foundation at a glance

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Carnahan Family 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.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$330kCommunity Improvement$160kPhilanthropy$40kHealth$18kHuman Services$13kRecreation & Sports$13kArts & Culture$12kReligion$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$844k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALTUS ACADEMY$18,000
MARILLAC ST VINCENT$5,000
CLASSICAL MUSIC CHICAGO$2,500
ST ANTHONY'S CHURCH$1,000
MISERICORDIA$1,000
ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKE$1,000
HARBOR ARTS$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 17%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $6k → 14%VIGILANT TORCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1k → 14%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1k → 14%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $500 → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $500 → 14%ENVISION UNLIMITED: $250 → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $1k → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $1k → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $500 → 14%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $375 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
CA
KY
VA
DE
TN
AL
GA
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$530k · 23 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
39

Total granted

$530k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+38%

Still filing today

74%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MP
    METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +6%
  • AA
    ALTUS ACADEMY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $34k · revenue +246%
  • TB
    THE BOTTOM LINE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • GL
    GREAT LAKES ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +1%
  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • TO
    THE OAKS WOMEN'S CLUB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +138%
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

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.

1
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
5
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
8
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
9
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
10
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Illinois Arts Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 66 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
35/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $259,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGOCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $40,000 · OtherCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMENALTUS ACADEMY: $33,600 · OtherALTUS ACADEMY+33 more: $56,286 · Other+33 moreMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $160,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCILTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BOTTOM LINE INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,500 · HealthSUM NFP: $2,500 · HealthFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $1,000 · HealthBAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Health+5 more: $1,150 · HealthGREAT LAKES ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE OAKS WOMEN'S CLUB INC: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $400 · EducationMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $8,200 · Human ServicesAlmost Home Kids: $2,875 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesVIGILANT TORCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesEnvision Unlimited: $750 · Human ServicesNorthwestern University: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $100 · Recreation & SportsClassical Music Chicago: $3,250 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc: $680 · Arts & CultureThe National Public Housing Museum: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$388,886Community Improvement$170,000Health$15,650Education$15,400Human Services$14,825Recreation & Sports$10,100Arts & Culture$6,930

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO: $259,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $160,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALTUS ACADEMY: $33,600 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetGREAT LAKES ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $8,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN EMPLOYED: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OAKS WOMEN'S CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetILLINOIS ARTS ALLIANCE: $3,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetClassical Music Chicago: $3,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $2,875 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUM NFP: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Association for Spelling as Communication: $1,506 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIKAMING OPEN LANDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIGILANT TORCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvision Unlimited: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Inc: $680 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Institute Building Material Reuse Center: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $50 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.

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.

The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Polk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Elizabeth Morse Chari…Lloyd a Fry FoundationJewish Federation of …The Irving Harris Fou…Circle of Service Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Chauncey and Marion D…The Pierce Family Cha…
The Chicago Community TrustIL23.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust Xxxxx1008 · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Irving Harris Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Chauncey and Marion D McCormick Family Foundation · The Pierce Family Charitable 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carnahan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carnahan Family 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Carnahan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carnahan Family 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 66 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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