Tennessee · Private foundation
The Carpenter Family 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.
- $300k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations The Carpenter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $300k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $850k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $750k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $750k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $906k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) | $1,100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Texas Christian University | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Harpeth Hall School | $306,450 | 1 | 1% |
| Tennessee Justice Center Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Friends of the Warner Parks Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Crossroads Campus | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Livelikelou Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Friends of Shelby Park Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Carpenter Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Carpenter Family Foundation
- How much does The Carpenter Family Foundation give?
- The Carpenter Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Carpenter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Human Services (34%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
- Who are The Carpenter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ($1.1M), Texas Christian University ($500k), The Harpeth Hall School ($306k).
- Does The Carpenter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Carpenter Family 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 Carpenter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Frist Foundation, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is The Carpenter Family Foundation based?
- The Carpenter Family Foundation is based in TN.
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