Illinois · Private foundation
Carson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $199k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $23,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Carson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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 | 35 | $172k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $96k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $93k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $124k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $204k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Maley Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Nine Line Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Camp Nicolet Foundation Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 8% |
| SAVAnon | $16,000 | 2 | 5% |
| The Salvation Army | $15,000 | 5 | n/a |
| At Risk Mentoring | $15,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Aurora University | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Aurora Historical Society | $12,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Association for Individual Development | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Project Veritas | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($399k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Twelve Twenty-One Fund · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · Dunham Fund · Juvenile Protective Association of Aurora Illinois · The Chicago Community Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Carson Family Foundation
- How much does Carson Family Foundation give?
- Carson Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $198,920 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Carson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Religion (22%), Health (13%).
- Who are Carson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Joseph Maley Foundation Inc ($35k), Nine Line Foundation Inc ($30k), Camp Nicolet Foundation Inc ($27k).
- Does Carson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Twelve Twenty-One Fund, Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley, Dunham Fund.
- Where is Carson Family Foundation based?
- Carson Family Foundation is based in IL.
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