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Carson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS (WINGS) | $50,000 |
| SPORTS VISION 20-20 | $18,220 |
| DEL RAY ZEN COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WIWOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $153k · revenue +91%
- ADAMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $137k · revenue +119%
- SNSEMILLA NUEVA3× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +738%
Funded once
- VLVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNEDone grant, 2021 · $30k
- PAPAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $20k
- PAPAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
Global Pediatric Alliance's mission is to promote grassroots empowerment and community-based healthcare to reduce maternal and infant mortality, and improve the lives of women and children in poor, rural areas in Latin America.
NISGUA works for real democracy in Guatemala and in the US by building mutually beneficial grassroots ties between people in the US and Guatemala
MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.
Good neighbors usa is an international humanitarian and development organization committed to build a global community where people live together in health, harmony, and dignity.
Guatemala Village Health's mission is to improve health in rural Maya communities in Guatemala by working alongside village leaders and in collaboration with the Ministry of Health by facilitating the delivery of sustainable medical care,…
Nueva Generacin supports low-income families in Guatemala through scholarships education and family support
New Dawn Guatemala is a Seattle-based grassroots organization that works to promote equitable, ecologically friendly development and educational advancement in the rural Guatemalan community of Nuevo Amanecer (New Dawn in English) and the…
The mission of the Peoples Consultants is to provide material and intellectual support to communities organizations and individuals from developing countries to enable them to satisfy and protect their basic human rights such as good…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nursing Heart Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ripple Effect. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMILLA NUEVA ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIPPLE EFFECT ↗
- Who funds VET TRIIP INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR GUATEMALA INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CONNECTION GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds One Days Wages ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds NURSING HEART INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eagle Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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