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Carney Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| GORTON COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $1,000 |
| GEORGETOWN VISITATION PREP SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANICAL GARDEN | $500 |
| LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS | $500 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $500 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $500 |
| LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $500 |
| ST TERESA OF AVILA CHURCH | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Carney Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EFELAWA FARM FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +188%
- KCKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry4× · 2017–2021 · $22k · revenue +23%
- LFLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +420%
Funded once
- SPSAINT PATRICK CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $20k
- IRINDIAN RIVER MEDICAL CENTER FNDTNone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDAone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Indian River County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beaverhead Animal Shelter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 108 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY FKA FOREST PARK PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INC ↗
- Who funds JO DAVIESS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Clarks Fork Foundation · Hedberg Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Gorter Family Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · The Buchanan Family Foundation · David D & Mary F Grumhaus Fund · CMB Foundation · The John's Island Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Carney Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Safespace Inc — 25% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.