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Herbert & Edith Carlson Char Fdn Tua

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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
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.

Health$1.0MHousing & Shelter$167kHuman Services$167k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$24,952
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$24,952
JOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FDN$24,952
HOSPICE FDN OF THE FL SUNCOAST$24,952
HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA$12,476
HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC$12,476
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 (FY17–25, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA: $29k → 12%HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA: $18k → 12%RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $18k → 12%RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $18k → 12%RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $18k → 12%HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA: $18k → 12%RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ATTN: $17k → 12%RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $13k → 12%HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA: $12k → 12%Hope Villages of America: $6k → 12%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 8 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 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

8
2

Total granted

$1.3M
$42k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $327k · revenue +120%
  • HV
    Hope Villages of America Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +46%
  • HE
    HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $35k
  • SH
    SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ATTN JIM
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
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

4 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. 4 of the 11 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)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FDN: $179,444 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FDNTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC: $148,824 · OtherTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INCHOSPICE FDN OF THE FL SUNCOAST ATTN: $126,589 · OtherHOSPICE FDN OF THE FL SUNCOAST ATTNJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $109,226 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITALSUNCOAST HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $67,823 · OtherSUNCOAST HOSPICE FOUNDATIONJOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $35,406 · Other+2 more: $19,061 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $327,072 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHIL…Hope Villages of America Inc: $166,828 · Human ServicesHope Villages …HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $154,352 · Housing & ShelterHOMELESS EMER…
Other$686,373Health$327,072Human Services$166,828Housing & Shelter$154,352

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $327,072 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHope Villages of America Inc: $166,828 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $154,352 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC: $148,824 over 5y, 0.5% 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 SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Hope Villages of America Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Herbert & Edith Carlson Char Fdn Tua funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert & Edith Carlson Char Fdn Tua. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Homeless Emergency Project Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Hope Villages of America Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
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.

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 11 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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