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The Carmel Hill Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$27MInternational$13MHealth$11MSocial Science$6.3MPhilanthropy$4.9MCivil Rights$2.6MHuman Services$2.1MYouth Development$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+11 grants · $7.7M
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$434M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,191,571
RSF SOCIAL FINANCE$2,191,571
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$860,000
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$550,000
READ ALLIANCE$299,500
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY$291,688
READING PARTNERS$287,750
MADISON SQUARE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$275,000
PARENTCHILD$271,000
LITERACY INC$257,500
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER$250,000
EXPANDED$204,750
NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$200,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$200,000
CITY YEAR$155,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITY LIVING NY: $35k → 20%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $800k → 17%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $292k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $91k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $57k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $35k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $150k → 17%RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE: $1k → 10%RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE: $1k → 10%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $80k → 17%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $78k → 17%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $72k → 17%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $70k → 17%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $161k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
LA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of The Carmel Hill Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Carmel Hill Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 44 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
60

Total granted

$40M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+9%

Still filing today

57%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.5M 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $13M · revenue +11%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +60%
  • MS
    Madison Square Boys & Girls Club
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND - THE CARMEL HILL GIFT FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $5.0M
  • ST
    SAVE THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · $2.5M
  • FH
    FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -2%
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
School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education
2
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
6
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
7
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
8
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Brooklyn Charter School

Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Queens Library Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hopelab Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 141 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
50/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND - THE CARMEL HILL GIFT FUND: $5,000,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND - THE CARMEL HILL GIFT FUNDLITERACY INC NYC: $4,250,000 · OtherLITERACY INC NYCNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $3,850,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSIONDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3,738,055 · OtherDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLSNEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3,067,971 · OtherNEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLSMONROE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $2,820,556 · OtherMONROE SCHOOL DISTRICTSAVE THE CHILDREN: $2,500,000 · OtherSAVE THE CHILDRENST PAUL SCHOOL: $2,307,022 · OtherST PAUL SCHOOLVERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,191,571 · OtherVERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+93 more: $9,974,836 · Other+93 moreSave The Children Federation Inc: $12,500,000 · InternationalSave The Children F…+1 more: $100,000 · InternationalTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,200,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…READ ALLIANCE INC: $299,500 · EducationREADING PARTNERS: $287,750 · EducationLITERACY INC: $257,500 · Education+17 more: $930,885 · Education+17 moreRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $6,308,205 · Social ScienceRSF SOCIA…Madison Square Boys & Girls Club: $1,175,000 · Youth DevelopmentLET'S GROW KIDS INC: $1,000,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $72,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,161,634 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $901,576 · Human ServicesTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $800,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $150,000 · Human Services+6 more: $95,000 · Human Services
Other$39,700,011International$12,600,000Education$6,975,635Social Science$6,308,205Youth Development$2,247,500Philanthropy$2,161,634Human Services$1,946,576

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 budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $12,500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $6,308,205 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $3,850,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,161,634 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMadison Square Boys & Girls Club: $1,175,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBETHLEHEM LAND TRUST INC: $1,030,000 over 2y, 93% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,025,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLET'S GROW KIDS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $901,576 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $860,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $800,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetREAD ALLIANCE INC: $299,500 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $287,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC: $271,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLITERACY INC: $257,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $155,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $107,500 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHopelab Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetInseparable Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $97,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOTS FAMILY CENTER: $95,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTRANSCEND INC: $85,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTwinray Illuminations: $82,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $64,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $54,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUEENS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $54,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAll Star Code Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCITY LIVING NY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $34,385 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $25,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BIPOLAR FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING: $22,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
  • Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Madison Square Boys & Girls Club ↗
  • Who funds BETHLEHEM LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗

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.

The Vermont Community…The Morris & Bessie A…Pinkerton FoundationNational Life Group C…RUTH & PETER METZ FAM…The Independent Chari…Robin Hood FoundationBen & Jerry's Foundat…The Kelsey TrustAntonio B and Rita M …Oakland Foundation IncGeorge W Mergens Foun…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT28.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Kelsey Trust · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · George W Mergens 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 Carmel Hill Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carmel Hill Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc: 52% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Stern Center for Language and Learning: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
23report 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
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 The Carmel Hill Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Carmel Hill Fund 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 141 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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