· Private foundation
The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| LYNN HOUSE | $10,000 |
| WALTERS ART MUSEUM | $7,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (WHOI) | $2,500 |
| BRYN MAWR SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $2,250 |
| IRVINE NATURE CENTER | $2,000 |
| MARYLAND SPCA | $1,500 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| SAVE OUR SOUND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 53% of The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Cornell University9× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +59%- PVPine View Association Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +112%
- SSSUNCOAST SPORTS CLUB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- KKKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA OF CORNELL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -61%
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY HYANNIS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -11%
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…
Clean ocean action's goal is to improve and protect the waters off the new jersey/new york coast from pollution, plastics, industrialization and climate change with research, education and citizen action.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Pine View Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST SPORTS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA OF CORNELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY HYANNIS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carson-Etheridge Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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