How much does Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney give?

Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney reported 6 grants totaling $27,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (33%), Education (20%), Human Services (17%).

Who are Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Leader Dogs for the Blind ($21k), Potawatomi Zoological Society Inc ($20k), Rawhide Inc ($18k).

Does Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, Network for Good, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.

Where is Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney based?

Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney is based in WI.

Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney

Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney at a glance

· Private foundation

Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

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.

Animals$102kEducation$61kHuman Services$51kHealth$26kYouth Development$23kRecreation & Sports$17kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$523k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BEST OF FRIENDS HUMANE SOCIETY	$6,000
COAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISSTANCE	$5,000
BRADY'S K-9 FUND	$5,000
POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY	$5,000
MACC FUND	$5,000
AIDS WALK NEW YORK	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$238k · 19 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$238k

$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+55%

Still filing today

58%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitRecreation & 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

LD
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
4× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +9%
PZ
POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
4× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +52%
RI
RAWHIDE INC
3× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +31%

Funded once

HS
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISHAWAKA
one grant, 2017 · $5k
CO
CASA OF WESTERN WISCONSIN
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
HH
HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals

Second Chance Humane Society Inc

Improving the lives of animals by fostering the human-animal bond.

Animals

Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals

Homeward Animal Shelter Inc

To care for, protect and place animals for adoption in life long homes, and to prevent cruelty to animals by educating our community in the proper and humane care of all animals.

Animals

Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals

Posh Pets Rescue Inc

Animal rescue, care and placement.

Recreation & Sports

Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals

Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc

The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.

Animals

Underdog Pet Rescue of Wisconsin Inc

Underdog pet rescue is an all-breed companion animal rescue and vet clinic based out of dane county, wisconsin. our mission is to find permanent homes for animals in need and to enrich lives by strengthening the connection between animals…

Animals

Rags 2 Riches Animal Rescue

Animal rescue

Animals

Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals

Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pet Refuge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Faith Hope & Love Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

16/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$162,832Animals$76,150Human Services$32,000Health$20,000Education$6,500Recreation & Sports$5,000Public Benefit$3,000

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.

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.

Baird Foundation IncWI13.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard J Carney and Donna R Carney. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home