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Elizabeth Carse Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k
Granted FY2023
20
Itemized grants FY2023
20
Organizations funded FY2023
65%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$105k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 23
FY2020 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2023
$2.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 65% of the organizations Elizabeth Carse Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202320$105k65%
FY202218$86k100%
FY202123$109k65%
FY202020$100kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$129kYouth Development$74kEducation$65kHuman Services$45kEnvironment$20kHousing & Shelter$20kScience & Tech$15kAnimals$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($221k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elizabeth Carse Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Martin de Porres Academy Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBartlett Arboretum Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetConnecticut Science Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA Hartford Region Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGoodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding One Community Corp: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTrinity Academy Hartford Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetConnecticut Zoological Societyinc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Community School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEmpower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMusic Will Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Discovery Museum Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget4-H Education Center at Auerfarm Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlways Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Womens Hall of Fame Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetShakesperience Productions Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMy Sisters' Place Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts for Learning Connecticut: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Village for Families and Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls With Impact Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWaterbury Youth Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Liberty Bank Foundation IncCT34.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Elizabeth Carse Foundation

How much does Elizabeth Carse Foundation give?
Elizabeth Carse Foundation reported 20 itemized grants totaling $105,000, out of $120,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Elizabeth Carse Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Youth Development (10%), Education (9%).
Who are Elizabeth Carse Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: St Martin de Porres Academy Inc ($10k), Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc ($10k), Connecticut Science Center Inc ($10k).
Does Elizabeth Carse Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elizabeth Carse Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Elizabeth Carse Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Liberty Bank Foundation Inc, Peoples United Community Foundation, Connecticut Humanities Council Inc.
Where is Elizabeth Carse Foundation based?
Elizabeth Carse Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $115k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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