· Private foundation
The Carefree 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $281k
- $250k+1 grant · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARIZONA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $360,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK | $100,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $100,000 |
| DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $80,900 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| 92NY | $1,000 |
| ATLANTA STUDENT VISIONARIES OF THE YEAR | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BRITTLE BONE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ADATH ISRAEL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $367k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Trustees of Tufts College5× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +26%- CRCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +230%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $13k
- COCONGREGATION OR TZIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.
To raise funds to transmit to the weizmann institute of science, a world-renowned scientific research center. basic research by weizmann institute scientists benefits people around the world, notably in fighting cancer, improving health…
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Arizona Jewish Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH IN FINANCIAL ECONOMICS-C/O DR C SPATT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LINKS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BRITTLE BONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GLADWYNE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DESERT MOUNTAIN 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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carefree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carefree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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