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Mary E Carnrick Foundation at a glance

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Mary E Carnrick Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$365k
Granted FY2023
32
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$675kHealth$668kHousing & Shelter$535kYouth Development$440kEducation$400kFood & Nutrition$185kCrime & Legal$140kReligion$70kOther$0
02FY2023 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $355k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILIPS ACADEMY$20,000
CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING$20,000
SALVATION ARMY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$20,000
MOTHERS OF MURDERED OFFSPRING$20,000
ALLIANCE CENTER FOR EDUCATION$15,000
CHARLOTTE NEUROSCIENCE FOUNDATION$15,000
LOAVES & FISHES$15,000
IN REACH$10,000
ANSWER SCHOLARSHIPS$10,000
CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION$10,000
PROJECT LIFE MOVEMENT$10,000
THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$10,000
LIFESPAN$10,000
THE RELATIVES YOUTH CRISIS CENTER$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $60k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $60k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $40k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $20k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $20k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $20k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $20k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES: $15k → 10%INNER VISION: $20k → 10%INNER VISION: $15k → 10%INNER VISION: $10k → 10%INNER VISION: $10k → 10%INNER VISION: $5k → 10%INNER VISION: $5k → 10%INNER VISION: $5k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $20k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $15k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $10k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $10k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $5k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $5k → 10%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $5k → 10%IN REACH: $30k → 10%IN REACH: $20k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $20k → 10%IN REACH: $20k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $15k → 10%IN REACH: $10k → 10%IN REACH: $10k → 10%IN REACH: $10k → 10%IN REACH: $10k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $10k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $10k → 10%ANSWER SCHOLARSHIPS: $20k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $5k → 10%ANSWER SCHOLARSHIPS: $15k → 10%ANSWER SCHOLARSHIPS: $10k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $5k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $5k → 10%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 46 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
3

Total granted

$3.4M
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+151%

Still filing today

41%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $310k · revenue +65%
  • CF
    Charlotte Family Housing
    7× · 2017–2023 · $240k · revenue +6%
  • InReach
    7× · 2017–2023 · $110k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • RC
    RALLY CHARLOTTE
    6× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue -76%
  • CH
    CHARLOTTE HEALTCARE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $3k
  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1k · revenue +151%
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
Southlight Healthcare Inc

Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.

Health
2
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
3
Feeding Charlotte Inc

Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…

Food & Nutrition
4
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
5
Community Alternatives Inc

To provide responsive, person-centered services to improve the quality of life of individuals with disabilities.

Employment
6
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

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7
The Presbyterian Hospital

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
8
Caldwell Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide safe, effective, compassionate care and to promote healthy lifestyles to our community.

Health
9
Nhrmc Home Care

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
10
Heal Charlotte

Heal Charlotte is a community based organization that provides youth development programming (in-school, after school, and summer camps), adult training workshops (financial literacy, job training), rental assistance and eviction…

Human Services
11
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
12
Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Project Life. 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

27 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. 27 of the 50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/27
Grantees still filing
14/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $325,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $185,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOTHERS OF MURDERED OFFSPRING: $140,000 · OtherMOTHERS OF MURDERED OFFSPRINGCHARLOTTE HOUSING AUTHORITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $125,000 · OtherCHARLOTTE HOUSING AUTHORITY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDBETHLEHEM CENTER OF CHARLOTTE NC: $80,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY CENTER OF HOPE: $70,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP TRAYS - LOAVES & FISHES: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherLIFESPAN INC: $70,000 · OtherUMAR SERVICES INC: $70,000 · OtherSHEPHERD'S CENTER: $70,000 · OtherHOSPITALITY HOUSE: $70,000 · OtherTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC: $70,000 · OtherTHE RELATIVES YOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $70,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $70,000 · OtherNEVINS CENTER: $70,000 · Other+16 more: $429,500 · Other+16 moreCharlotte Family Housing: $240,000 · Human ServicesCharlotte Family Hou…InReach: $110,000 · Human ServicesInReachALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $70,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDER YOUTH NETW…INNERVISION INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesINNERVISION INCAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc: $70,000 · Human ServicesAda Jenkins Families…ANSWER Scholarship Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesANSWER Scholarship I…+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $310,000 · HealthCHARLOTTE RESC…Project Life: $62,500 · HealthProject LifeCharlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte: $45,000 · HealthCharlotte Neur…+3 more: $18,000 · HealthALLIANCE CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC: $100,000 · EducationLIZ MURRAY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $70,000 · EducationCARE TO SHARE OUTREACH CENTER INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionROOF ABOVE INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureRALLY CHARLOTTE: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,054,500Human Services$620,000Health$435,500Education$170,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Arts & Culture$45,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $310,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing: $240,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetInReach: $110,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCARE TO SHARE OUTREACH CENTER INC: $100,000 over 7y, 60% of budgetALLIANCE CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLIFESPAN INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUMAR SERVICES INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINNERVISION INC: $70,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetLIZ MURRAY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $70,000 over 7y, 100% of budgetAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetProject Life: $62,500 over 7y, 16% of budgetFriendship Trays Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT ONE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $55,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetANSWER Scholarship Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte: $45,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCATHERINE'S HOUSE: $30,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMens Shelter of Charlotte Inc: $25,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Up: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJackson Park Ministries: $10,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRALLY CHARLOTTE: $5,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗
  • Who funds InReach ↗
  • Who funds CARE TO SHARE OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds LIFESPAN INC ↗
  • Who funds UMAR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
  • Who funds INNERVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIZ MURRAY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Project Life ↗
  • Who funds Friendship Trays Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ONE SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds ANSWER Scholarship Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds CATHERINE'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Foundation for the Ca…United Way of Greater…Merancas Foundation I…Duke Energy FoundationThe Cannon Foundation…The Leon Levine Found…Albemarle FoundationLucille P & Edward C …The Presbyterian Hosp…Ta Piedmont Club Foun…Ncfibarnhardt Foundat…Dowd Foundation Inc
Foundation for the CarolinasNC34.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Ta Piedmont Club Foundation Pcf · Ncfibarnhardt Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc

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 Mary E Carnrick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary E Carnrick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mary E Carnrick Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mary E Carnrick 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 50 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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