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The Carr Foundation Inc

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.

$687k
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$869kArts & Culture$725kHealth$614kHousing & Shelter$380kRecreation & Sports$323kEducation$322kEnvironment$255kCrime & Legal$140kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $395k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA$110,000
MOUNTAIN VIEW HEALTH SERVICES$60,000
WASILLA AREA SENIORS INC$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GNHAIK$25,000
HOLY ROSARY ACADEMY$25,000
FACING FOSTER CARE$20,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$20,000
BEAN'S CAFE$20,000
TRUGAME$20,000
UAA COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES$15,000
HEALTHY FUTURES$15,000
ANCHORAGE YOUTH COURT$15,000
ANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION$15,000
MULTILPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$15,000
HOSPICE OF ANCHORAGE$10,000
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, $457k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Kids Kupboard: $3k → 10%INTERIOR ALASKA CENTER FOR NON-VIOLENT LIVING: $5k → 21%Battle Dawgs: $3k → 10%WASILLA AREA SENIORS INC: $30k → 10%WASILLA AREA SENIORS INC: $25k → 10%WASILLA AREA SENIORS INC: $20k → 10%Wasilla Area Seniors Inc: $15k → 10%Wasilla Area Seniors Inc: $10k → 10%Wasilla Area Seniors Inc: $6k → 10%Wasilla Area Seniors Inc: $5k → 10%ALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $10k → 10%ALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $10k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $75k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $50k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $50k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $50k → 10%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $25k → 10%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $25k → 10%ANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC: $10k → 10%Anchorage Hospice Inc: $5k → 10%ANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF ALASKA: $10k → 10%ALASKA INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $5k → 10%ALASKA INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $5k → 10%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 89 repeat orgs$314k to everyone else

89 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
40

Total granted

$4.0M
$234k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+68%

Still filing today

60%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CS
    Catholic Social Services
    6× · 2017–2023 · $275k · revenue +226%
  • LD
    LIVING DESERT THE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $255k · revenue +84%
  • AM
    Anchorage Museum Association
    4× · 2018–2021 · $145k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AM
    Anchorage Museum Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +71%
  • AG
    ANCHORAGE GOLF LEGACY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -60%
  • CF
    Camp Fire USA AK Council
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
Alaska Childrens Alliance

Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…

Crime & Legal
3
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
4
Alaska Sustainability Initiative

To advance solutions that build the resilience and sustainability of Alaska, for its current and future residents and the natural systems upon which they depend.

Animals
5
Anchorage Affordable Housing and

To expand and preserve year-round rental opportunities that are affordable to moderate, low, and very low-income households to foster a welcoming environment for demographically and socio-economically diverse populations in Anchorage, AK.

Housing & Shelter
6
United Way of Anchorage

We unite caring people to give volunteer and take action to remove barriers to opportunities. Thats been our mission since we first started serving Alaska. It guides how we solve our communitys toughest challenges and is why weve been able…

Philanthropy
7
Alaska Trails

Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.

Recreation & Sports
8
Alaska Avalanche School Inc

The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association

The Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association (AHHA) is a non-profit trade association representing more than 65 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and other healthcare partners.Our members are distributed across…

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10
Arctic Access Inc

Our Mission is to provide services and opportunities for elders and people with disabilities to remain in the home and village of their choice, and to be active as possible with their families and communities.

Health
11
Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.

Housing & Shelter
12
Stand Up Alaska

To Harness the power of the diverse people of Alaska and their communities to empower and support transformative social change. Stand Up Alaska is an Alaskan-led movement providing intersectional and diverse views on issues affecting all…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Girdwood Art Institute. 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

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 143 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/84
Grantees still filing
59/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Covenant House: $300,000 · OtherCovenant HouseOur Lady of the Rosary Alaska: $90,000 · OtherANCHORAGE YOUTH COURT: $85,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $85,000 · OtherBeans Cafe Inc: $86,000 · Other+96 more: $1,681,555 · Other+96 moreAnchorage Museum Association: $145,000 · Arts & CultureAnchorage Museu…ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureALASKA PUBLIC M…Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAlaska Native H…ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureALASKA CENTER F…Anchorage Museum Foundation: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAnchorage Museu…ALASKA CHAMBER SINGERS: $42,000 · Arts & CultureALASKA CHAMBER …Perseverance Theatre Incorporated: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePerseverance Th…SITKA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureAlaska Junior Theater Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureALASKA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $86,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreCatholic Social Services: $275,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Social…COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $135,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE …Wasilla Area Seniors Inc: $111,000 · Human ServicesWasilla Area Se…ANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $20,000 · Human Services+5 more: $30,500 · Human ServicesLIVING DESERT THE: $255,000 · EnvironmentANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION: $95,000 · EnvironmentMountain View Health Services: $90,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $40,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $38,500 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthBethel Family Clinic: $10,000 · HealthAlaska Mental Health Consumer Web: $7,500 · Health+2 more: $7,500 · HealthThe Alaska Community Foundation: $110,000 · PhilanthropyBEST BEGINNINGS: $50,000 · PhilanthropyArctic Slope Community Foundation Inc: $14,500 · PhilanthropyFacing Foster Care in Alaska: $95,000 · Crime & LegalAlaska Legal Services Corporation: $45,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,327,555Arts & Culture$623,000Human Services$591,500Environment$350,000Health$223,500Philanthropy$174,500Crime & Legal$140,000

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 budgetCatholic Social Services: $275,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $255,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAnchorage Museum Association: $145,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $135,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWasilla Area Seniors Inc: $111,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetThe Alaska Community Foundation: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFacing Foster Care in Alaska: $95,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetOur Lady of the Rosary Alaska: $90,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetMountain View Health Services: $90,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetBeans Cafe Inc: $86,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetANCHORAGE YOUTH COURT: $85,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAlaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc: $65,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $50,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBEST BEGINNINGS: $50,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAnchorage Museum Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSpirit of Youth: $47,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetAlaska Legal Services Corporation: $45,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA CHAMBER SINGERS: $42,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ANCHORAGE: $40,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPerseverance Theatre Incorporated: $40,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $38,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetANCHORAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetSKIKU INC FORMERLY NORDIC JOURNEYS INC: $37,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTHCENTRAL AK: $35,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAccess Alaska Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSITKA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $30,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetJunior Achievement of Alaska Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetAlaska Junior Theater Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetALASKA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetThe Arc of Anchorage: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKENAI PENINSULA FOOD BANK INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTONE SOUP GROUP: $21,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMabel T Caverly Senior Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetChallenge Alaska: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAlaska Youth Orchestras: $20,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetANCHORAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA ALASKA: $20,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetALASKA JEWISH HISTORICAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArctic Slope Community Foundation Inc: $14,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAnchorage Concert Association Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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 Catholic Social Services ↗
  • Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
  • Who funds Anchorage Museum Association ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
  • Who funds Wasilla Area Seniors Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Facing Foster Care in Alaska ↗
  • Who funds Our Lady of the Rosary Alaska ↗
  • Who funds Mountain View Health Services ↗
  • Who funds Beans Cafe Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORAGE YOUTH COURT ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEST BEGINNINGS ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Anchorage Museum Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Spirit of Youth ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Legal Services Corporation ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA CHAMBER SINGERS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ANCHORAGE ↗
  • Who funds Perseverance Theatre Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SKIKU INC FORMERLY NORDIC JOURNEYS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTHCENTRAL AK ↗

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.

Rasmuson FoundationThe Alaska Community …Richard L and Diane M…Atwood Foundation IncUnited Way of Anchora…Valley Hospital Assoc…Frances & David Rose …Providence Health & S…Gottstein Family Foun…MEWebber FoundationAlaska Children's Tru…Swanson Family Founda…
Rasmuson FoundationAK126.8× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Atwood Foundation Inc · United Way of Anchorage · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Frances & David Rose Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Gottstein Family Foundation · MEWebber Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Swanson Family 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 Carr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 143 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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