Kentucky · Private foundation
Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 155
- Grants FY2025
- 149
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,290,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 149 to 176
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 25
- Total assets, FY2025
- $55M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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 | 150 | $8.7M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 149 | $8.7M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 160 | $8.9M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 170 | $10M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 165 | $8.8M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 176 | $11M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 164 | $9.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luther F Carson Four Rivers Center Inc | $10,967,000 | 7 | 56% |
| Paducah Symphony Orchestra Inc | $2,185,000 | 7 | 36% |
| Market House Theatre of Paducah Kentucky Inc | $2,075,000 | 7 | 64% |
| French African Christian Educationfoundation Inc | $1,860,100 | 7 | 39% |
| New Pathways for Children Inc | $1,219,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Mission Pre-Born Inc | $800,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Starfish Orphan Ministry Inc | $768,000 | 7 | 34% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $685,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Billy Graham Evangelistic Association | $675,000 | 7 | n/a |
| St Mary School System | $655,000 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 146 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 121 recipients with no EIN on record ($26M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 116 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation of West Kyinc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Baptist Healthcare System Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation
- How much does Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation give?
- Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation reported 155 grants totaling $8,867,430 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 149 and 176 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Arts & Culture (25%), Education (13%).
- Who are Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Luther F Carson Four Rivers Center Inc ($11M), Paducah Symphony Orchestra Inc ($2.2M), Market House Theatre of Paducah Kentucky Inc ($2.1M).
- Does Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of West Kyinc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc.
- Where is Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation based?
- Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation is based in KY.
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