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The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation

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.

$30k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
77%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$443k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 77% of the organizations The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalReligionCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$30k73%
FY202313$30k77%
FY20225$22k80%
FY202113$24k77%
FY202016$38k75%
FY201911$22k73%
FY20185$25k0%
FY20177$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$62kArts & Culture$61kEducation$21kHealth$19kInternational$15kReligion$12kAnimals$12kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
SD
PA
CA
CO
MD
DE
AZ
NC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCharles River Conservancy Inc: $39,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetRHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $24,840 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetVisual Arts Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGiving What We Can USA Inc: $5,775 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Evangelical Church Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSeva Foundation: $3,975 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEncore Boston Network Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBettina Network Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetCivic Ventures Dba Cogenerate: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTreepeople Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHonor the Earth: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndigenous Environmental Network: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPetfinder Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Clouds Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAurora Community Connection: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Columns Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClimate Mobilization Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVidiots Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWave Farm Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatskill Forest Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEndangered Language Alliance Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWomen's Studio Workshop Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wassaic Project Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatskill Mountainkeeper Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTiger Strikes Asteroid Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation

How much does The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation give?
The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $29,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (28%), Arts & Culture (28%), Education (10%).
Who are The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Charles River Conservancy Inc ($39k), RHIZOME COMMUNICATIONS INC co NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ($25k), Visual Arts Foundation Inc ($8k).
Does The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 77% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation based?
The Carolyn K Tribe Foundation is based in MA.

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 67 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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