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Carroll Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$545k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$364k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.3MReligion$869kEducation$830kPhilanthropy$726kHuman Services$107kInternational$100kHealth$47kArts & Culture$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $364k
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JDRF$364,400
Family Church of West Palm Beach$100,000
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro$25,000
Family Services of the Piedmont$13,955
The Arts Council of Greater Greensboro$10,000
Welfare Reform Liason Project Inc$10,000
The Arc of Greensboro Inc$7,000
Victor Hill Pentecostal Holiness Church$5,200
Tabitha Ministry$5,000
One Step Further Inc$2,500
NC Habitat Foundation$1,000
Mercy Hill Church$750
B'nai Shalom Day School$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Family Services of the Piedmont: $14k → 16%Family Services of the Piedmont: $1k → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE PIEDMONT: $10k → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE PIEDMONT: $9k → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE PIEDMONT: $8k → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE PIEDMONT: $5k → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE PIEDMONT: $2k → 16%CAROLINA ADOPTION SERVICES: $1k → 16%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 25 repeat orgs$314k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
34

Total granted

$3.1M
$297k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+34%

Still filing today

44%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2023 · $751k · revenue +45%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $47k · revenue +25%
  • OS
    OPERATION SMILE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $31k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +40%
  • IC
    IPHC CHURCH WORLD MISSIONS MINISTRY
    one grant, 2021 · $37k
  • SE
    Stoneville Elementary School PTO
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
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
Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont Inc

Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…

Employment
2
Walnut Grove Christian School

We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…

Education
3
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
4
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
5
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
6
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
7
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
8
Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines Inc

Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
9
William Peace University

William peace university is a private four-year university in downtown raleigh, north carolina. the mission of the university is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. rooted in the liberal arts tradition, the…

Education
10
WakeMed

The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.

Health
11
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
12
Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of the Piedmont Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lenny Peters Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 64 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JDRF: $1,288,976 · OtherJDRFFAMILY CHURCH INC: $355,000 · OtherFAMILY CHURCH INCFamily Church of West Palm Beach: $200,000 · OtherFamily Church of West Palm BeachDefinition Church: $100,000 · OtherWESTOVER CHURCH: $100,000 · Other+46 more: $427,844 · Other+46 moreWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $750,500 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSIT…+3 more: $11,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $635,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDAT…+1 more: $320 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 · ReligionFAITHFIRE WORLDWIDE REVIVAL MINISTRIES: $5,000 · ReligionFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $47,455 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $11,400 · Arts & CultureOPERATION SMILE INC: $30,715 · International
Other$2,471,820Education$761,500Philanthropy$635,320Religion$105,000Human Services$48,455Arts & Culture$35,400International$30,715

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $750,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $635,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $47,455 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $30,715 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $24,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOld North State Council Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $11,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE STEP FURTHER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Arc of Greensboro Inc: $8,720 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTABITHA MINISTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreensboro College: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA ADOPTION SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetB'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF HIGH POINT NC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLENNY PETERS FOUNDATION INC: $320 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJuliets House Animal Rescue Inc: $200 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.

  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds Old North State Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ONE STEP FURTHER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Arc of Greensboro Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TABITHA MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITHFIRE WORLDWIDE REVIVAL MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗

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.

Amg Charitable Gift FoundationCO20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Foundation for the Carolinas · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Cole Family Foundation · Sigmund and Ellen Tannenbaum Foundation Inc · The Allendale Fund · The Ackermann Foundation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc

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 Carroll Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carroll Family Foundation 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 64 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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