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· Private foundation
THE CARSON-ETHERIDGE FOUNDATIONINC
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$51k
Granted FY2024
13
Grants
6
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$179kRecreation & Sports$13kEnvironment$8kArts & Culture$6kAnimals$4kOther$115k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 13 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CORNELL UNIVERSITY$20,000
- LYNN HOUSE$10,000
- WALTERS ART MUSEUM$6,000
- BRYN MAWR SCHOOL$2,500
- SUNCOAST SPORTS CLUB INC$2,000
- CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$2,000
- MARYLAND SPCA$1,500
- NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$1,500
- IRVINE NATURE CENTER$1,500
- OCEAN CONSERVANCY$1,500
- SAVE OUR SOUND$1,000
- THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI)$1,000
- BLAKEHURST RESIDENTS SCHOLARSHIP$750
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 9%. 91% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 43% of THE CARSON-ETHERIDGE FOUNDATIONINC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
THE CARSON-ETHERIDGE FOUNDATIONINClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$318k · 15 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -31% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
2
Total granted
$318k
$4k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+32%
-31%
Still filing today
53%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
CORNELL UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +17%- PVPINE VIEW ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +148%
- SSSUNCOAST SPORTS CLUB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- KKKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA OF CORNELL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -31%
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY HYANNIS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Penobscot Marine Museum
Penobscot marine museum inspires curiosity and fosters understanding about life and work on the maine coast to encourage stewardship of our communities and the sea.
Arts & Culture
2
Washington College
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.
Education
3
Susquehanna University
Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.
Education
4
Cornell College
To create a space where students can develop intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage.
Education
5
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
As the first art museum and school in the us, pafa celebrates the transformative power of art and art-making.
Education
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Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc
The mission of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to preserve and explore the history, environment, and people of the chesapeake bay. the vision of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to be the see sched o.
Arts & Culture
7
Gettysburg College
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Education
8
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The philadelphia museum of art is committed to being the cultural heart of philadelphia. (sch o)pma is a national and international destination for art, but first and foremost we are philadelphia's museum for all the many diverse…
Arts & Culture
9
Coastal Conservation Association
Protection of the marine, animal and plant life and resources of the coastal areas of the united states, both onshore and offshore, for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public. such objectives will be accomplished by: (a)…
Environment
10
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art
The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art preserves and presents elements of art and nature that highlight the extraordinary beauty of the Brandywine region in Pennsylvania and Delaware. The Brandywine Conservancy protects and conserves…
Arts & Culture
11
Currier Gallery of Art
Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.
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University of Maryland Alumni
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Maryland Spca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$178,750Other$114,650Recreation & Sports$13,000Environment$7,750Arts & Culture$5,500Animals$3,900
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CORNELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PINE VIEW ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST SPORTS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND SPCA ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA OF CORNELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY HYANNIS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAKEHURST RESIDENTS SCHOLARSHIP ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE CARSON-ETHERIDGE FOUNDATIONINC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SUNCOAST SPORTS CLUB INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +88% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 650882658 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SUNCOAST SPORTS CLUB INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc?
Find your warmest path to The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines