· Private foundation
John S Carpenter Trust Para 23
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $4,875 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $4,875 |
| THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY | $4,875 |
| ROWAN UNIVERSITY | $4,875 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE | $4,875 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $4,875 |
| HAVERFORD COLLEGE | $4,875 |
| KEAN UNIVERSITY | $4,875 |
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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SUSTOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2021 · $18k · revenue +201%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE3× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +21%- MUMESSIAH UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- RURUTGERS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $11k
- EDELISE DAVENPORT CO MESSIAH COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $7k
- SSSARAH SHARP CO STOCKTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $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.
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.
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 41 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 STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEUMANN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALEM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John S Carpenter Trust Para 23 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John S Carpenter Trust Para 23. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
How this is measured
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