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Carrier Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

51% of Carrier Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’21
2
’22
4
’23
0
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$13MEnvironment$2.1MFood & Nutrition$1.2MHousing & Shelter$688kEducation$670kHealth$122kYouth Development$117kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $346k
  • $250k+4 grants · $4.4M
$196,077
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Online Giving Foundation$2,384,716
National Arbor Day Foundation$1,300,000
C40 Cities Climate Leadership$350,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL AMERICUS$330,000
THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$196,077
Techforce Foundation$150,000
Haus Des Stiftens Fuer Unternehmen$7,216
Charitable Giving Ltd$203
Canadian Online Giving Foundation$125
Fonds De Participation Solidaire$78
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $100k → 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

IL
NY
PA
CA
NE
MO
VA
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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 70% of Carrier Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Carrier Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.0% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 5 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
19

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+19%

Still filing today

40%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UN
    United Nations World Food Program
    3× · 2022–2024 · $980k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL AMERICUS
    3× · 2022–2025 · $680k
  • TU
    THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $353k

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SUSTAINABLE COOLING GRANT PROGRAM
    one grant, 2024 · $350k
  • Feeding America
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +2%
  • TN
    The North Carolina A&T Real Estate Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $160k · revenue -22%
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
4
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
7
The Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Inc

To ensure the long-term financial growth and viability of the baldrige performance excellence program, and to support organizational performance excellence in the united states and throughout the world.

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8
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
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
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
12
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc

To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is 21st Century School Fund. 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

20 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. 20 of the 33 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,488,797 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INCNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,732,724 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Nations World Food Program: $979,640 · OtherUnited Nations Worl…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL AMERICUS: $680,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANIT…THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $353,451 · OtherTHE UK ONLINE GIVIN…THE SUSTAINABLE COOLING GRANT PROGRAM: $350,000 · OtherTHE SUSTAINABLE COO…FIRST: $160,000 · OtherUS Green Building Council: $125,000 · Other+14 more: $396,773 · Other+14 moreNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL A…C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc: $350,000 · EnvironmentC40 Cities…Spelman College: $230,000 · EducationThe North Carolina A&T Real Estate Foundation Inc: $160,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationFeeding America: $250,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $116,525 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · Health
Philanthropy$12,371,521Other$3,044,864Environment$1,650,000Education$400,000Food & Nutrition$265,000Youth Development$116,525Health$110,000

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 budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,488,797 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,732,724 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFeeding America: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $230,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe North Carolina A&T Real Estate Foundation Inc: $160,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTECHFORCE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $116,525 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding Talent Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $24,651 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Carrier Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carrier Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Carrier Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Carrier Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 33 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home