Colorado · Private foundation
Carter 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.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $209k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Carter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 25 | $37k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $37k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $30k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $35k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $28k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $36k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $34k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $24k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $59,661 | 8 | 0% |
| Center for the Arts Evergreen Inc | $10,650 | 4 | 0% |
| Morris Animal Foundation | $8,030 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $7,963 | 1 | 0% |
| Denver Kids Inc | $7,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Raft(Resource Area for Teaching)Colorado | $7,600 | 3 | 2% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $7,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Denver Rescue Mission | $7,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Resilience 1220 Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| STEM Generation Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 8% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($134k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carter Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Carter Family Foundation
- How much does Carter Family Foundation give?
- Carter Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $37,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Carter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Science & Tech (14%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Carter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($60k), Center for the Arts Evergreen Inc ($11k), Morris Animal Foundation ($8k).
- Does Carter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carter 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 Carter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Carter Family Foundation based?
- Carter Family Foundation is based in CO.
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