· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k54 grants · $6.7M
- $250k+58 grants · $44M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC | $6,221,253 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $2,772,489 |
| THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY | $2,105,128 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $2,050,000 |
| MANHATTAN MARYMOUNT COLLEGE | $2,000,257 |
| UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC | $2,000,000 |
| MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC | $2,000,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $1,250,000 |
| BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION | $1,250,000 |
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,200,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $1,198,756 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT SAINT VINCENT | $1,025,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $1,000,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $750,000 |
| SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY | $750,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $15.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Carson Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 86%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
135 repeat relationships: 106 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $28M · revenue +36%
- TRTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue +1%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +167%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $950k
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $750k
- MUMERCY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -5%
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.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
How this is measured
149 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. 149 of the 175 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER FOR CHARTER SCHOOL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds EXALT YOUTH ↗
- Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE 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 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carson Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carson Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc: 2% of income from government
- Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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