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Frank L Carney Charitable Trust

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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$90kEducation$60kHealth$23kRecreation & Sports$15kYouth Development$1kPublic Benefit$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CHURCH OF THE MAGDALEN$5,000
ST PAUL PARISH NEWMAN CENTER$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%LEGATUS: $4k → 10%NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%AUGUSTINE INSTITUTE: $50k → 8%ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%LEGATUS: $3k → 10%NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%LEGATUS: $3k → 10%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN KANSAS: $3k → 16%LEGATUS: $3k → 10%ST PAUL PARISH NEWMAN CENTER: $3k → 16%LEGATUS: $3k → 10%ST PAUL PARISH NEWMAN CENTER: $3k → 16%LEGATUS: $3k → 10%ST PAUL PARISH NEWMAN CENTER: $3k → 16%LEGATUS: $3k → 10%CEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH FUND: $2k → 16%WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT: $4k → 16%WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT: $4k → 16%WSU ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT: $4k → 16%WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT: $4k → 16%WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT: $4k → 16%HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC ACADEMY BUILDING FUND: $50k → 16%HERO INC: $1k → 16%MICHAEL FOR SEDGWICK COUNTY: $500 → 16%KAPAUN MT CARMEL: $5k → 16%CHURCH OF THE MAGDALEN: $5k → 16%CASTING NETS: $2k → 16%CHURCH OF THE MAGDALEN: $3k → 16%CASTING NETS MINISTRIES INC: $2k → 16%CHURCH OF THE MAGDALEN: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$81k · 6 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$81k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+74%

Still filing today

50%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
EducationReligionHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • L
    Legatus
    7× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +25%
  • AF
    ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $18k · revenue +74%
  • NU
    NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • HS
    HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC ACADEMY BUILDING FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • Augustine Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +74%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC ACADEMY BUILDING FUND: $50,000 · OtherHOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC ACADEMY BUILDING FUNDWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT: $14,990 · OtherWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENTCHURCH OF THE MAGDALEN: $9,500 · OtherCHURCH OF THE MAGDALENST PAUL PARISH-NEWMAN CENTER: $7,500 · OtherST PAUL PARISH-NEWMAN CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,910 · Other+5 more: $8,250 · Other+5 moreAugustine Institute Inc: $50,000 · EducationAugustine Institute IncNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · EducationNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INCLegatus: $21,200 · ReligionLegatusCASTING NETS MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 · ReligionCASTING NETS …ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $18,100 · HealthALZHEIMER'…
Other$99,150Education$60,000Religion$23,200Health$18,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLegatus: $21,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $18,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASTING NETS MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Legatus ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds CASTING NETS MINISTRIES INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frank L Carney Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank L Carney Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Frank L Carney Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Frank L Carney Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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