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The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$54k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
15%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$876k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$54k0%
FY202413$51k15%
FY202312$53k25%
FY202211$47k27%
FY20218$51k0%
FY20208$31k0%
FY20199$32k11%
FY20188$30k0%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$224kArts & Culture$55kHousing & Shelter$48kEnvironment$19kRecreation & Sports$13kAnimals$12kScience & Tech$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, 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 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $192,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPine View Association Inc: $13,900 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetSuncoast Sports Club Inc: $13,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $7,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Audubon Society Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maryland Spca Inc: $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaltimore Museum of Art: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIrvine Natural Science Center Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBerea College: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKappa Kappa Gamma of Cornell Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetJohn F Kennedy Hyannis Museum Foundation Inc: $1,000 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 13.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc?

Find your warmest path to The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc 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.

About The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc

How much does The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc give?
The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc reported 12 grants totaling $53,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Arts & Culture (15%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
Who are The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cornell University ($193k), Pine View Association Inc ($14k), Suncoast Sports Club Inc ($13k).
Does The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc based?
The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc is based in MD.

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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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