How much did CARSON FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of CARSON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

—

2020

church

2021

church

2022

—

2023

international

2024

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k3 grants · $73k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$39,322

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

LIVING HOPE OUTREACH CENTER$50,000
TOTAL LIFE MINISTRIES INC$39,322
LIFE CONNECTIONS NETWORK$24,000
NEW GENERATIONS$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$620k · 13 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +211% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$620k

$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+211%

+55%

Still filing today

23%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationReligionHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

NG
NEW GENERATIONS
3× · 2022–2024 · $115k · revenue +160%
LI
LOVE INC OF GREATER CUSHING
2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +211%
NL
NEW LIVING ISRAEL INC
2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +239%

Funded once

WO
WORLD OCEAN SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +74%
TD
THE DENVER BRASS INC
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +7%
CC
COOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

New Glory International

To be a channel for the manifest presence of God; to lead the church to a place of deeper intimacy; and to teach a greater understanding of true worship and victorious living to the bride of Christ.

Religion

Sooner Theatre of Norman Inc

The mission of The Sooner Theatre is to change lives, offer diverse perspectives and create a cultural connection to the community through the performing arts and arts education.

Arts & Culture

Love in the Name of Christ - Big Wo

To mobilize churches to help people in need.

Human Services

Loving On Purpose

The organization provides Christian ministry, teaching and demonstrations of the Gospel of Jesus Christ via seminar presentations and online classes.

Religion

Likewise Worship Inc

Likewise worship exists for the purpose of discipling worship leaders whomGod is calling to shepherd his people. We aim to equip and developfollowers of Jesus Christ and gifted musicians to lead humbly andcreatively in their contexts for…

Religion

New Life International Christian

Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.

Religion

International Living Streams

To spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ by conducting conferences, training, teaching, and supporting ministries that serve others

Religion

Sonship International Inc

To bring the church into a deeper experience of God in daily life.

Religion

Loveworks Leadership Inc

Our mission is to help students develope personal character, instill leadership, and learn entrepreneurship skills.

Youth Development

Serving Orphans Worldwide Inc

Serving Orphans Worldwide betters the lives of orphans by rescuing struggling orphanages, training them to provide quality care, and enabling them to pursue sustainability.

Food & Nutrition

Joshua Generation International

Evangelistic overseas outreach church, leadership training, nation worker support and missionary overseas ministry.

Religion

World Indigenous Missions Inc

Engaged in missionary training, organizing churches, evangelism, and related Christian activities.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Living Israel Inc and the most unlike its peers is Love Inc of Greater Cushing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/10

Grantees still filing

9/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$528,566Religion$115,468Education$17,350Human Services$10,000International$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Civil Rights$1,000Health$150

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation CARSON FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CIMARRON PLAYERS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 16.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 731410896 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CIMARRON PLAYERS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Carson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CARSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carson Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CARSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Carson Foundation?

More from the funding graph