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The Carls Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$17MEnvironment$17MHuman Services$5.8MFood & Nutrition$2.9MHousing & Shelter$2.0MEducation$2.0MYouth Development$1.0MCrime & Legal$867kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+15 grants · $5.3M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$129M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL$500,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$500,000
TRINITY HEALTH OAKLAND$500,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES NORTHERN MICHIGAN$500,000
MICHA 6$500,000
Individual grant recipient$475,000
KEWEENAW LAND TRUST$325,000
Individual grant recipient$292,975
AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH & FAMILY SERVICES$250,000
NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES$250,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$250,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$250,000
FREEDOM HOUSE$250,000
JUDSON CENTER INC$250,000
NEW COMMUNITY VISION$250,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HEARTS CRI MICHIGAN INC: $30k → 5%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON LENEWEE & HILLDALE COUNTIES: $45k → 13%CHILD & FAMILY CHARITIES: $250k → 16%REACHING HIGHER: $26k → 5%WHALEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100k → 16%STREAMS OF HOPE: $150k → 11%HANDS ACROSS THE WATER INC: $76k → 14%WHALEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $100k → 16%HANDS ACROSS THE WATER: $45k → 14%WHALEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $95k → 16%CROSSOVER OUTREACH: $55k → 16%ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL: $150k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $140k → 21%OZONE HOUSE INC: $250k → 14%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 21%NORTHMEN DEN YOUTH PANTRIES: $30k → 9%CRISTO REY COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 9%ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL: $70k → 21%NORTHMEN DEN YOUTH PANTRIES INC: $20k → 9%DEAF & HARD OF HEARING SERVICES: $40k → 11%THE ARC COMMUNITY ADVOCATES: $39k → 12%WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $20k → 11%THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN: $36k → 16%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $50k → 7%SAMARITAS: $250k → 21%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $50k → 7%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $150k → 21%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $40k → 7%COVENANT HOUSE OF MICHIGAN: $75k → 21%OUR HOUSE: $44k → 14%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 8%OUR HOUSE: $44k → 14%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $23k → 7%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $48k → 8%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 14%HIGHER HOPES INC: $25k → 8%DETROIT PARENT NETWORK: $50k → 21%HIGHER HOPES INC: $25k → 8%HIGHER HOPES: $25k → 8%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $156k → 14%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $75k → 8%CHRIST CHILD HOUSE: $75k → 21%CHRIST CHILD HOUSE: $45k → 21%JUDSON CENTER INC: $119k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $28k → 8%JUDSON CENTER INC: $250k → 8%FREEDOM HOUSE: $250k → 21%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $212k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
IN
PA
CA
MD
TN
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of The Carls Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Carls Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 95 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

95 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
150

Total granted

$33M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+20%

Still filing today

79%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +93%
  • MH
    MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS
    5× · 2019–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +81%
  • SR
    SIX RIVERS LAND CONSERVANCY FKA SIX RIVERS REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +259% · 54% of their budget

Funded once

  • AH
    AVALON HEALING CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +8%
  • C
    COTS
    one grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue -12%
  • CC
    Covenant Community Care Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
2
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
3
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
4
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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5
Association for Children's Mental Health

To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.

Health
6
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
7
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
8
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
9
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
10
Mclaren Greater Lansing

Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
11
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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12
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hands Across the Water Inc and the most unlike its peers is Special Needs Vision Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild Welfare ServicesFaith-Based School SupportChristian Discipleship Mini…Residential Care and Housin…Detroit Area Economic Devel…Mental Health and Substance…Public Sector Labor UnionsIntegrated Health SystemsMichigan Business & Economi…Private Country Clubs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr14%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%44%35–55yr14%24%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/193
the rest of the field
15%
4,818/33,132

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

182 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 182 of the 266 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
180/182
Grantees still filing
124/182
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $4,000,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS — $3,021,231 · OtherMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONSBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION (FORMERLY OAKWOOD FOUNDATION) — $1,500,000 · OtherBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION (FORMERLY OAKWOOD FOUNDATION)ST JOSEPH MERCY OAKLAND — $1,000,000 · Other+105 more — $15,198,770 · Other+105 moreGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $3,500,000 · EnvironmentGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONA…SIX RIVERS LAND CONSERVANCY FKA SIX RIVERS REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $1,094,500 · EnvironmentSIX RIVERS LAND CONSER…LEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $750,000 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CONSERVANCYLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $700,000 · EnvironmentLittle Traverse Conser…LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY — $682,000 · EnvironmentLEGACY LAND CONSERVANC…SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC — $575,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAN…KEWEENAW LAND TRUST INC — $425,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $400,000 · Environment+13 more — $1,906,427 · Environment+13 moreBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,070,493 · HealthBEAUMONT HEALTH …HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALT…HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $720,200 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALT…MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL — $567,500 · HealthMARY FREE BED RE…CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER — $400,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALI…AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN — $375,000 · HealthTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $350,000 · HealthBronson Health Foundation — $313,708 · HealthAVALON HEALING CENTER — $300,000 · HealthCovenant Community Care Inc — $250,000 · HealthAMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN MI INC — $250,000 · Health+15 more — $1,661,581 · Health+15 moreJUDSON CENTER INC — $368,561 · Human ServicesJUDSON CE…Whaley Children's Center Inc — $295,000 · Human ServicesWhaley Ch…Child and Family Charities — $250,000 · Human ServicesChild and…OZONE HOUSE INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesOZONE HOU…SAMARITAS — $250,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITASFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT — $250,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM H…STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $240,000 · Human ServicesSTARFISH …Hospice of Michigan Inc — $231,244 · Human ServicesHospice o…COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN — $225,000 · Human ServicesZAMAN INTERNATIONAL — $220,000 · Human ServicesMethodist Children's Home Society — $212,176 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER GRAND TRAVERSE AREA — $162,500 · Human ServicesStreams of Hope — $150,000 · Human ServicesOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY — $145,925 · Human Services+15 more — $999,630 · Human Services+15 moreGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $1,000,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $1,000,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Eastern Michigan — $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more — $215,000 · Food & NutritionCOTS — $300,000 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS — $214,603 · Housing & ShelterLIFE REMODELED — $66,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $250,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT — $110,650 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $94,650 · PhilanthropyGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $51,840 · PhilanthropyHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION — $40,098 · Philanthropy
Other$24,720,001Environment$10,032,927Health$7,258,482Human Services$4,250,036Food & Nutrition$2,315,000Housing & Shelter$580,603Philanthropy$547,238

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $4,000,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $3,500,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS — $3,021,231 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetSIX RIVERS LAND CONSERVANCY FKA SIX RIVERS REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $1,094,500 over 6y, 54% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,070,493 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $750,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $720,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $700,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetLEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY — $682,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetVISTA MARIA — $650,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC — $575,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL — $567,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $525,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES — $450,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKEWEENAW LAND TRUST INC — $425,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER — $400,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN — $375,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC — $368,561 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $350,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBronson Health Foundation — $313,708 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAVALON HEALING CENTER — $300,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCOTS — $300,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWhaley Children's Center Inc — $295,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN — $266,500 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetCovenant Community Care Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetChild and Family Charities — $250,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLACASA — $250,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetOZONE HOUSE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN MI INC — $250,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSAMARITAS — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Flint Mental Health Facilities Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT — $250,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetThumb Land Convervancy — $250,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY VISION — $250,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetNATIONAL PARK TRUST INC — $246,427 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC — $240,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOakland Integrated Healthcare Network — $240,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc — $231,244 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $225,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN — $225,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetZAMAN INTERNATIONAL — $220,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $220,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Michigan Health Endow…United Way for Southe…Dte Energy FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…Harry a and Margaret …Children's Hospital o…Charles Stewart Mott …Comerica Charitable F…Ethel and James Flinn…Ford PhilanthropyThe Jewish Fund
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI98.7× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Jewish Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Carls Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
56report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Carls Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Carls 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 266 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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