· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT PHOTIOS ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL | $100,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY | $14,650 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,568 |
| CHRIST THE KING EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,300 |
| MANRESA HOUSE OF RETREAT | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC6× · 2017–2023 · $19k · revenue +17%
- DSDEEP SOUTH TODAY3× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +83%
- LCLEFLORE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2021–2023 · $1k · revenue +292%
Funded once
- GMGREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +7%
- BFB F SMITH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -49%
- GLGreenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academyone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -14%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To establish and maintain the desoto county museum.
The organization's mission is to protect, promote and preserve mississippi's rich sports history while operating the mississippi sports hall of fame & museum.
To preserve, restore, beautify and historically interpret greenwood cemetery, which is owned by the city of jackson, mississippi.
Development of cultural and artistic enlightenment
The foundation was established to support the mississippi museum of natural science though receiving, maintaining and distributing funds exclusively for the benefit of the museum.
To promote annual giving to provide funds for services to mississippi state university alumni.
Non Profit Museum
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GREENWOOD MISSISSIPPI CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds B F SMITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEEP SOUTH TODAY ↗
- Who funds Greenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy ↗
- Who funds THE BULLDOG CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LEFLORE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA ↗
- Who funds ALOTIAN CHARITIES INC F/K/A WESTERN AMATEUR 2013 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred and Margaret Carl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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