· Private foundation
Carol 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mission Pre Born | $10,000 |
| Got Questions Ministries | $10,000 |
| Hannahs Haven | $10,000 |
| Men of Valor | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Childrens Bible Ministries | $6,000 |
| Samaritans Purse | $5,000 |
| Cumberland Chrisis Pregnancy Center | $5,000 |
| Mercy Multiplied | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCUMBERLAND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +4%
- HHHANNAH'S HAVEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +18%
- MMMERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- FCFaith Churchone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GEGOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +35%
- AFAlliance for Freedom Restorationone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
Biblical counseling
Fulfill evangelism and discipleship ministry through singing, preaching, and teaching the gospel in prisons, churches, and communities. this includes a correspondence bible course ministry to inmates. in addition, compassion ministry is…
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Religious Purposes
Counsel beleivers who are in need of spiritual and mental healing. bring non believers the good news of the gospel of grace. educate others on how to counsel through the word of god. provide seminars and conferences to enhance christian…
To deliver the message of Jesus
We are a gospel mission seeking to reach out to jewish and gentile people with the good news that jesus christ is the messiah of israel and the savior of the world, while edifying people about the jewish roots of christianity.
Interdenominational support ministry
Christian ministry to law enforcement, emergency servants,victims, and offenders.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 21 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 CUMBERLAND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HANNAH'S HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BIBLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Got Questions Ministries ↗
- Who funds MEN OF VALOR ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF CHES TER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL ECHOES TEAM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN CARES ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carol Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carol Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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