· Private foundation
Carson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k31 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $23,000 |
| CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BSA | $23,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| NINE LINE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHARCOT MARIE TOOTH (CMT) RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| REFUGE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SRT SERVICES | $8,000 |
| CAMP NICOLET FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| JOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION (AKA AMERICA'S FRONTLINE DOCTORS) | $6,000 |
| LIFESPRING MINISTRY SHELTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN-WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES (AKA LIFESPRING MINISTRY SHELTER) | $6,000 |
| BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE | $6,000 |
| CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ST KATHARINE DREXEL | $6,000 |
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, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CNCAMP NICOLET FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +59%
- SSAVAnon2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +13%
AURORA UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TCTHE CUBIT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +0%
- AIAGAPE INTERNATIONALone grant, 2021 · $2k
- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUSone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
Augusta university research institute, inc. (the "institute") was incorporated under the laws of the state of georgia as a nonprofit corporation on july 31, 1980. the institute qualified as a tax-exempt corporation under section 501(c)(3)…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Support of the educational and research activities of the american university of armenia (aua).
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 57 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH MALEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NINE LINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP NICOLET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVAnon ↗
- Who funds AT RISK MENTORING ↗
- Who funds AURORA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AURORA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST SHELTER FOR HOMELESS VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN RADIO INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNREACHED VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA VETERAN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOC OF BIRTH DEFECT CHILDREN INC D/B/A BIRTH DEFECT RESEARCH FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF UGANDA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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