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The Carleen Foundation at a glance

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The Carleen Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$83k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Civil Rights$96kPhilanthropy$5kEducation$5kAnimals$3kHuman Services$3kReligion$2kHousing & Shelter$500
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$83,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$83,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%READY TO WORK AURORA: $500 → 8%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 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.

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No Kill Colorado

No kill colorado?s mission is to help make colorado the safest state for homeless animals

Animals
2
Animal Friends Alliance

It is the mission of animal friends alliance to provide comprehensive companion animal resources, services, education to the community to prevent homelessness and promote human-animal bond. our vision is that all companion animals…

Animals
3
Environmental and Animal Defense

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…

Crime & Legal
4
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
5
Dogs Unbroken

Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…

Animals
6
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Wake County Inc

Located in raleigh, nc, the spca of wake county works in over half the state of north carolina through collaborative partnerships that save pets and help people. significant activities include: decreasing the number of animals entering…

Animals
7
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
8
Pawsco

To give vulnerable animals an opportunity to thrive by engaging the passion of our Colorado Community.

Animals
9
The Colorado Humane Society & Spca Inc

See schedule o.to prevent cruelty and neglect of animals within the state of colorado by:-assisting agencies in the enforcement of laws relating to cruelty and neglect of companion animals and equines-educating the public on animal welfare…

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10
Paws On the Ground Colorado

dog rescue and adoption

Animals
11
Animal Adoption Foundation

Aaf is a no kill shelter for domestic animals that have been abused and abandoned. aaf provides and coordinates adoption, spay/nueter, and educational programs, which aim to reduce and control pet population. aaf maintains temporary…

Animals
12
Scroungy Dogs and Pretty Pups Rescue Inc

We rescue dogs and cats from high kill and high volume shelters, as well as intake local animals in need, transport them (if needed) to Colorado, house them in foster homes while we provide all required veterinary services, including…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; the most unlike its peers is Red Fern Animal Rescue. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $96,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCHIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT: $5,000 · OtherPRAIRIE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHUR: $1,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CEN: $500 · OtherCOLORADO JEWISH RECONSTRUCTIONIST FEDERATION: $250 · OtherWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesReady to Work Aurora: $500 · Human ServicesDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $1,500 · AnimalsCOLORADO PET PANTRY: $1,000 · AnimalsRED FERN ANIMAL RESCUE: $500 · Animals
Crime & Legal$96,000Other$6,750Philanthropy$5,000Human Services$3,000Animals$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $96,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO PET PANTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRED FERN ANIMAL RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetReady to Work Aurora: $500 over 1y, 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Carleen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carleen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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.

    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 11 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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