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Carr-Reza 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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$54kPhilanthropy$6kInternational$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kHealth$1kYouth Development$250Human Services$250Arts & Culture$108Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$11,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$450k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Scholarship America$11,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary: $100 → 18%HOPKINSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $108 → 8%Fidelity Charitable: $5k → 16%Scholarship America: $12k → 11%GOFUNDMEORG: $100 → 14%Community Foundation of Rochester: $1k → 14%Doctors without Borders: $1k → 17%UT Austin: $250 → 5%UT Austin: $250 → 10%TAG Magnet PTSA: $250 → 14%Pratham USA: $250 → 16%Your Cause BlackBaud Wells Foundation for UT: $1k → 9%Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids: $500 → 14%Schoolstorecom: $105 → 9%Islamic Relief USA: $500 → 9%One Tree Planted: $41 → 10%Fidelity Charitable: $1k → 16%Scholarship America: $2k → 11%North Texas Food Bank: $100 → 5%St Marks School of Texas: $250 → 14%Your cause Blackbaud Wells Foundation: $100 → 9%Tobacco Free Kids: $250 → 14%Scholarship America: $1k → 11%St Marks School of Texas: $250 → 14%World Central Kitchen: $1k → 14%Scholarship America: $664 → 11%Runprojectorg: $72 → 14%Deaf Action Center: $250 → 14%Genesis Women's Shelter: $250 → 14%American Heart Association: $250 → 14%St Mark's School of Texas: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
NY
MA
CA
VA
AZ
AR
TN
SC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Carr-Reza Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 65%.

Carr-Reza Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46k · 4 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
23

Total granted

$46k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+6%

Still filing today

25%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UA
    UT Austin
    5× · 2020–2024 · $19k
  • SA
    Scholarship America
    4× · 2021–2025 · $16k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2021–2023 · $11k

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Texas of Arlington
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • CF
    Community Foundation of Rochester
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
3
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
4
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
5
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
6
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
7
International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation

The ifrs foundation's mission is to develop ifrs standards that bring transparency, accountability and efficiency to capital markets around the world. our work serves the public interest by fostering trust, growth and long-term financial…

Community Improvement
8
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
9
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids; the most unlike its peers is Hopkinton Center for the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UT Austin: $18,800 · OtherUT AustinScholarship America: $15,529 · OtherScholarship AmericaIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUniversity of Texas of Arlington: $5,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas of Arlington+12 more: $3,827 · Other+12 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $6,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY I…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,010 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $500 · InternationalCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 · HealthDEAF ACTION CENTER: $250 · HealthST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $750 · EducationPRATHAM USA: $250 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $100 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTED INC: $41 · PhilanthropyHopkinton Center for the Arts: $108 · Arts & Culture
Other$54,156Community Improvement$6,000International$2,510Health$1,000Education$750Philanthropy$391Arts & Culture$108

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAF ACTION CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHopkinton Center for the Arts: $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $41 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ↗
  • Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
  • Who funds DEAF ACTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Hopkinton Center for the Arts ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
  • Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carr-Reza Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carr-Reza Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Hopkinton Center for the Arts: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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