Maryland · Private foundation
Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter 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.
- $192k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $41,900
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k 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 | 5 | $192k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $237k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $206k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $260k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $260k | 89% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $220k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $235k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $225k | 80% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resilient Sisterhood Project Inc | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Northside Center for Child Development Inc | $110,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Ellington Fund | $100,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Visible Men Academy Inc | $90,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Indigo Arts Alliance | $75,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Alcorn State University Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| YouthBuild Newark Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hope and a Home | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Peel Dem Layers Back | $46,500 | 1 | 27% |
| Fiscal Sponsorship Allies Inc | $41,900 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($453k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Tides Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation with peer funders
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About Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation
- How much does Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation give?
- Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $191,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (10%).
- Who are Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Resilient Sisterhood Project Inc ($125k), Northside Center for Child Development Inc ($111k), The Ellington Fund ($100k).
- Does Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter 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 Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation based?
- Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation is based in MD.
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