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Joanne and John Carter Family 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 33
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$938k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving14$50k36%
FY202415$79k7%
FY202316$52k13%
FY202216$47k19%
FY202115$51k47%
FY202010$80k20%
FY201928$104k11%
FY201833$103k21%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$193kHuman Services$156kEducation$83kReligion$61kFood & Nutrition$60kYouth Development$25kArts & Culture$22kAnimals$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($347k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJudson Center Inc: $43,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation: $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Zoological Society: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Boxing Gym Youth Program: $13,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDetroit Riverfront Conservancy Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommon Ground: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rainbow Connection: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHaven Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMoorings Park Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAlma College: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOur Rescue: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLandon School: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Lakes Chamber Music Festival: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBrilliant Detroit: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Basics: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Baldwin Center Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOakland Community College Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNaples Music Club Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Zoo Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMobile Loaves & Fishes Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKeb Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetLafayette College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Alliance of Michigan: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCass Community Social Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha Chi Rho Educational Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDetroit Children's Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWalsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of the Ozarks: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 38.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI26.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Carls Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Mihalich Charitable Foundation · Deroy Testamentary Foundation · Eagles for Children · Fca Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn 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.

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How do I get to Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joanne and John Carter Family 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.

About Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation

How much does Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation give?
Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Human Services (23%), Education (12%).
Who are Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Judson Center Inc ($44k), Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation ($40k), Forgotten Harvest Inc ($40k).
Does Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joanne and John Carter Family 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 Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation, Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial.
Where is Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation based?
Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 70 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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