Illinois · Private foundation
Carney 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.
- $53k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $654k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Carney Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1000 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 | 21 | $53k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $39k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $30k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $39k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $36k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $42k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $111k | 51% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $74k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elawa Farm Foundation | $76,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $22,382 | 4 | 0% |
| Riverside Theatre Inc | $20,743 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | $15,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Lake Forest Open Lands Association | $13,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $12,382 | 2 | n/a |
| Indian River Symphonic Association Inc | $11,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Canterbury School Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gifford Youth Achievement Center Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| McKee Botanical Garden Inc | $6,240 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carney Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Carney Family Foundation
- How much does Carney Family Foundation give?
- Carney Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $53,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Carney Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Religion (15%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Carney Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Elawa Farm Foundation ($76k), Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ($22k), Riverside Theatre Inc ($21k).
- Does Carney Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carney Family 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 Carney Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Indian River Community Foundation Inc, Red Bird Hollow Foundation, Clarks Fork Foundation.
- Where is Carney Family Foundation based?
- Carney Family Foundation is based in IL.
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