· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELAWA FARM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VNA & HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $3,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN LAKE FOREST HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION | $2,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| THE LEARNING ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $2,000 |
| MILE HIGH 360 | $1,550 |
| SOUL CITY CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LILLARD FLY FISHING CONSERVATION FUND | $1,000 |
| LURIE CHILDRENS SURGICAL FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $26k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Carney Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 60%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EFELAWA FARM FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +188%
- KCKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry4× · 2017–2021 · $22k · revenue +23%
- LFLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +420%
Funded once
- SPSAINT PATRICK CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $20k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDAone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IRINDIAN RIVER MEDICAL CENTER FNDTNone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
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…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
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 lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
How this is measured
64 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. 64 of the 118 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY FKA FOREST PARK PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Place NFP ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH 360 ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carney Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carney Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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