Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Carnahan-Jackson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $754k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Carnahan-Jackson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $754k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $557k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $766k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $666k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $551k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $820k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $436k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $548k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK | $382,220 | 7 | 2% |
| Chautauqua Striders Inc | $343,000 | 9 | 7% |
| United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc | $275,000 | 7 | 4% |
| The Relief Zone Inc | $239,700 | 9 | 15% |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Jamestown | $231,600 | 5 | 3% |
| Infinity Visual & Performing Arts Inc | $188,500 | 8 | 6% |
| James Prendergast Library Association | $174,805 | 6 | 4% |
| Ucan | $172,500 | 4 | 0% |
| United Christian Advocacy Network Inc | $170,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Jamestown Community Learning Council | $139,000 | 7 | 3% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carnahan-Jackson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Holmberg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Western New York Foundation · United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc · Northern Chautauqua Community Found · Gebbie Foundation Inc · Chautauqua Region Economic Development Corporation
How this is measured
About Carnahan-Jackson Foundation
- How much does Carnahan-Jackson Foundation give?
- Carnahan-Jackson Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $754,023 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Carnahan-Jackson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Human Services (23%), Youth Development (19%).
- Who are Carnahan-Jackson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK ($382k), Chautauqua Striders Inc ($343k), United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc ($275k).
- Does Carnahan-Jackson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carnahan-Jackson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carnahan-Jackson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc, Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc, Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation.
- Where is Carnahan-Jackson Foundation based?
- Carnahan-Jackson Foundation is based in PA.
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