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The Carroll 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.

$23k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,591
Largest grant, FY2024
$19,500
Organizations funded a year
4 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$132k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Carroll Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving3$23k33%
FY20238$19k38%
FY20224$24k0%
FY20216$19k33%
FY20204$5k0%
FY201912$49k42%
FY201813$26k54%
FY201715$29kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$145kHuman Services$22kInternational$17kReligion$6kAnimals$4kPhilanthropy$3kRecreation & Sports$2kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
DC
HI
GA

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sage Hill School$43,25040%
Irvine Public Schools Foundation$22,10040%
Vista Verde Foundation$13,95537%
St John's University$2,50017%
The Irvine Childrens Fund$2,50050%
Families Forward$2,00010%
Irvine Swim League Inc$1,55430%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,00010%
Brac USA Inc$1,00010%
Laura's House$1,00010%
Show all 18 grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Carroll Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSage Hill School: $43,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIrvine Public Schools Foundation: $22,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVista Verde Foundation: $13,955 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetSt John's University: $2,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetThe Irvine Childrens Fund: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFamilies Forward: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIrvine Swim League Inc: $1,554 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrac USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaura's House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Joseph's University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSlammers Futbol Club: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrystal Cove Conservancy: $195 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTarbut V'Torah Community Day School: $158 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Center of Orange County: $137 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRandom Acts Inc: $122 over 1y, 0.0% 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 17.

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.

Samueli FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Samueli Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Carroll Family Foundation

How much does The Carroll Family Foundation give?
The Carroll Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $22,591 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Carroll Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (68%), Human Services (10%), International (8%).
Who are The Carroll Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sage Hill School ($43k), Irvine Public Schools Foundation ($22k), Vista Verde Foundation ($14k).
Does The Carroll Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Carroll 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 Carroll Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Samueli Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is The Carroll Family Foundation based?
The Carroll Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 36 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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