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Carroll Charities Inc at a glance

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Carroll Charities Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$280kInternational$195kCivil Rights$78kHuman Services$36kYouth Development$10kRecreation & Sports$732
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $128k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$651k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITANS PURSE$45,000
CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE$33,000
THE COLSON CENTER$30,000
CAMO$10,000
LIFEWISE$10,000
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATOR$5,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$732
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOSPEL FOR ASIA: $500 → 8%INTL JUSTICE MISSION: $13k → 14%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $732 → 15%SAMARITANS PURSE: $45k → 21%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $25k → 9%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $8k → 19%CAMO: $10k → 10%HARBOR PT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $1k → 12%TOBIN CENTER CHAPLAINCY: $10k → 16%MOODY RADIO: $1k → 14%INTL JUSTICE MISSION: $8k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $40k → 21%FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $10k → 9%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $3k → 19%CARROLLTON FIRST UMC: $500 → 12%TOBIN CENTER CHAPLAINCY: $10k → 16%MOODY RADIO: $600 → 14%INTL JUSTICE MISSION: $5k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $21k → 21%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $3k → 19%TOBIN CENTER CHAPLAINCY: $5k → 16%INTL JUSTICE MISSION: $3k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $15k → 21%WORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $3k → 19%TOBIN CENTER CHAPLAINCY: $4k → 16%INTL JUSTICE MISSION: $3k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $12k → 21%TOBIN CENTER CHAPLAINCY: $3k → 16%SAMARITANS PURSE: $11k → 21%TOBIN CENTER CHAPLAINCY: $2k → 16%SAMARITANS PURSE: $10k → 21%TOBIN CENTER CHAPLAINCY: $1k → 16%SAMARITANS PURSE: $10k → 21%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
IN
OH
CO
MO
VA
NC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$575k · 10 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$575k
$2k

Still filing today

40%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $164k · revenue +134%
  • TC
    The Colson Center for Christian Worldview
    8× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +166%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $78k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • HP
    HARBOR PT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • GF
    GOSPEL FOR ASIA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • CF
    CARROLLTON FIRST UMC
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $163,550 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $110,500 · ReligionThe Colson Center for Christian WorldviewBILLY GRAHAM EVENGELIC ASSOC: $57,000 · OtherBILLY GRAHAM EVENGELIC ASSOCWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INC: $40,000 · OtherWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS INCFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $35,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILYTOBIN CENTER CHAPLAINCY: $34,500 · OtherTOBIN CENTER CHAPLAINCYWORLD GOSPEL MISSION: $17,175 · OtherWORLD GOSPEL MISSIONCAMO: $10,000 · OtherPRISON FELLOWSHIP: $8,000 · Other+3 more: $2,000 · OtherCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $78,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CHR…INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $31,600 · InternationalLIFEWISE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $732 · Youth DevelopmentThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $1,600 · Education
Religion$274,050Other$203,675Civil Rights$78,000International$31,600Youth Development$10,732Education$1,600

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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $163,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $110,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE: $78,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $31,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago: $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $732 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds The Colson Center for Christian Worldview ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Carroll Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carroll Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Carroll Charities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Carroll Charities 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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