New York · Private foundation
Carson Family Charitable Trust
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.
- $50M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 120
- Grants FY2024
- 112
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $201,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,221,253
- Organizations funded a year
- 107 to 113
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $498M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Carson Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 116 | $49M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 112 | $48M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 107 | $54M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 107 | $56M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 113 | $55M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York Genome Center Inc | $27,990,257 | 5 | 9% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $19,272,489 | 5 | 4% |
| The Rockefeller University | $17,630,128 | 5 | 1% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $13,792,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Marymount Manhattan College | $10,900,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Uncommon Schools Inc | $8,500,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The New York and Presbyterian Hospital | $8,220,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools | $6,570,855 | 5 | 14% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $6,200,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Millbrook Community Partnership Inc | $5,000,000 | 2 | 54% |
Show all 145 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($27M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carson Family Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 138 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Heckscher Foundation for Children · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · William Randolph Hearst Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Hearst Foundation · Gates Foundation
How this is measured
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About Carson Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Carson Family Charitable Trust give?
- Carson Family Charitable Trust reported 120 grants totaling $50,468,073 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 107 and 113 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Carson Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (18%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Carson Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: New York Genome Center Inc ($28M), Robin Hood Foundation ($19M), The Rockefeller University ($18M).
- Does Carson Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carson Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carson Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robin Hood Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Heckscher Foundation for Children.
- Where is Carson Family Charitable Trust based?
- Carson Family Charitable Trust is based in NY.
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