California · Private foundation
Carol Irving Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $14k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,195
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $222k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Carol Irving Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $14k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $12k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $9k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $15k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $21k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $7k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $11k | 89% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donorschooseorg | $34,493 | 8 | 0% |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | $8,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Save the Redwoods League | $6,632 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the Fortuna Library | $6,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of the Arcata Marsh | $2,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Mistwood Educational Center | $1,750 | 3 | 1% |
| Creekside Elementary School PTA | $1,250 | 1 | 3% |
| PTA California Congress of Parents | $1,200 | 1 | 2% |
| California State Railroad Museum Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint James Episcopal Church | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donorschooseorg | $34,493 | 8 | 0% |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | $8,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Save the Redwoods League | $6,632 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the Fortuna Library | $6,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of the Arcata Marsh | $2,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Mistwood Educational Center | $1,750 | 3 | 1% |
| Creekside Elementary School PTA | $1,250 | 1 | 3% |
| PTA California Congress of Parents | $1,200 | 1 | 2% |
| California State Railroad Museum Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint James Episcopal Church | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of the Library of El Dorado County | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Drew University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Humboldt Literacy Project | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fortuna Elementary School District | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carol Irving Foundation supplied at peak.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Carol Irving Foundation
- How much does Carol Irving Foundation give?
- Carol Irving Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $14,145 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Carol Irving Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Environment (20%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are Carol Irving Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Donorschooseorg ($34k), Appalachian Mountain Club ($8k), Save the Redwoods League ($7k).
- Does Carol Irving Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carol Irving Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carol Irving Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Carol Irving Foundation based?
- Carol Irving Foundation is based in CA.
Play a game based on Carol Irving’s filings →