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Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$124k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,568
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$2k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Membership BenefitArts & CultureEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving5$124k20%
FY202311$61k18%
FY202210$168k10%
FY20219$534k33%
FY20207$16k29%
FY20192$4500%
FY20187$13k0%
FY20179$23kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$665kReligion$205kArts & Culture$34kMembership Benefit$20kPhilanthropy$10kRecreation & Sports$3kAnimals$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mississippi State University$627,4693n/a
Christ the King Episcopal Church$21,4007n/a
Greenwood Mississippi Cemetery Association$20,000114%
Mississippi Museum of Art Inc$19,00060%
B F Smith Foundation$10,00011%
Deep South Today$6,55730%
Greenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy$5,15010%
The Bulldog Club Inc$2,70010%
Leflore County Humane Society$1,45031%
Museum of the Mississippi Delta$1,10020%
Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mississippi State University$627,4693n/a
Christ the King Episcopal Church$21,4007n/a
Greenwood Mississippi Cemetery Association$20,000114%
Mississippi Museum of Art Inc$19,00060%
B F Smith Foundation$10,00011%
Deep South Today$6,55730%
Greenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy$5,15010%
The Bulldog Club Inc$2,70010%
Leflore County Humane Society$1,45031%
Museum of the Mississippi Delta$1,10020%
Alotian Charities Inc F/K/A Western Amateur 2013 Inc$5002n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($224k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreenwood Mississippi Cemetery Association: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMississippi Museum of Art Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetB F Smith Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDeep South Today: $6,557 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy: $5,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bulldog Club Inc: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeflore County Humane Society: $1,450 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMuseum of the Mississippi Delta: $1,100 over 2y, 0.3% 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 8.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation

How much does Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation give?
Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $124,018 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (71%), Religion (22%), Arts & Culture (4%).
Who are Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mississippi State University ($627k), Christ the King Episcopal Church ($21k), Greenwood Mississippi Cemetery Association ($20k).
Does Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fred and Margaret Carl 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 Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation based?
Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation is based in MS.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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