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Gerald & Janet Carrus Foundation at a glance

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Gerald & Janet Carrus 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$5.0MHealth$2.2MAnimals$850kEducation$790kEnvironment$185kFood & Nutrition$134kPhilanthropy$90kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HURLEYVILLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE INC$1,200,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $50k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
CT
CO
MD
NM
DC
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 7 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
22

Total granted

$7.1M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+26%

Still filing today

86%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsFood & NutritionInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • HP
    HURLEYVILLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +189% · 67% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +56%
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    3× · 2017–2021 · $600k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Department of Ped
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • AW
    AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +54%
  • DV
    DELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +15% · 48% of their budget
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

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.

1
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…

Animals
2
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc

The Fossey Fund is dedicated to the conservation and study of gorillas in Africa through a successful, people-centered approach: 1) Providing daily protection to gorillas, 2) Scientific research providing critical data on gorillas and…

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3
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
6
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
11
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
12
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pci-Media Impact Inc; the most unlike its peers is Disruptor Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HURLEYVILLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE INC: $4,290,000 · Arts & CultureHURLEYVILLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE INCDELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureMICA GROUP INC: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $1,453,592 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR DI…TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $500,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF C…TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Department of Ped: $250,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF C…INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL…FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $50,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE JERSEY INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Other+8 more: $135,000 · Other+8 moreWildlife Conservation Society: $600,000 · AnimalsWildlife C…AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WI…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $750,000 · EducationTHE TRUST…+1 more: $25,000 · EducationDISRUPTOR FOUNDATION: $82,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBATONGA FOUNDATION: $7,600 · PhilanthropyLAND TO LEARN: $50,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY AT ST MARYS MOHEGAN LAKE INC: $23,600 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$4,940,000Health$1,453,592Other$1,135,000Animals$850,000Education$775,000Philanthropy$115,100Food & Nutrition$73,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHURLEYVILLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE INC: $4,290,000 over 6y, 67% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC: $1,453,592 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $600,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetMICA GROUP INC: $200,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetLATSKY DANCE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDISRUPTOR FOUNDATION: $82,500 over 1y, 72% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAND TO LEARN: $50,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetPCI-MEDIA IMPACT INC: $27,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBethel Woods Center for the Arts Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PICTURE HOUSE REGIONAL FILM CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY AT ST MARYS MOHEGAN LAKE INC: $23,600 over 1y, 22% of budgetCITYSPROUTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVITAL THEATRE COMPANY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBK ROT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFOCUS ON TANZANIAN COMMUNITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBATONGA FOUNDATION: $7,600 over 2y, 0.8% 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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY9.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Gerald & Janet Carrus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald & Janet Carrus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Citysprouts Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Gerald & Janet Carrus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gerald & Janet Carrus Foundation 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 30 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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