Texas · Private foundation
Carson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $68k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 20
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $714k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Carson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $68k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $65k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $47k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $40k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $35k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $32k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $28k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Campus Ministry | $60,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Hays-Caldwell Women's Center | $29,000 | 7 | 0% |
| CASA of Central Texas Inc | $15,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Wimberley Valley Radio | $12,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Southside Community Center | $12,500 | 6 | n/a |
| The Barnabas Connection | $12,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Farm and City | $12,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Hays County Food Bank | $12,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Austin Explore Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Wimberley Education Foundation | $7,500 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Campus Ministry | $60,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Hays-Caldwell Women's Center | $29,000 | 7 | 0% |
| CASA of Central Texas Inc | $15,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Wimberley Valley Radio | $12,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Southside Community Center | $12,500 | 6 | n/a |
| The Barnabas Connection | $12,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Farm and City | $12,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Hays County Food Bank | $12,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Austin Explore Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Wimberley Education Foundation | $7,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Special Opportunity Center | $5,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Hill Country Alliance | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Team Esperanza | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Central Texas Food Bank Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Great Springs Project Inc (Audit) | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dell Children's Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), 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.
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How this is measured
About Carson Family Foundation
- How much does Carson Family Foundation give?
- Carson Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Carson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Religion (19%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Carson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United Campus Ministry ($60k), Hays-Caldwell Women's Center ($29k), CASA of Central Texas Inc ($16k).
- Does Carson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carson Family Foundation 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Burdine Johnson Foundation, St David's Foundation, Austin Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Carson Family Foundation based?
- Carson Family Foundation is based in TX.
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