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The Carter Center Inc

Mission description the carter center is guided by the principles of our founders, jimmy and rosalynn carter.

$8.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$1.0MPublic Benefit$728kYouth Development$565kInternational$407kHealth$350kScience & Tech$210kCivil Rights$181kHuman Services$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $772,216 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,620,643 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,848,427 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $141k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $631k
$41,216
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEAM DEMOCRACY ACTION$200,000
ROOT CHANGE$150,000
ELECTIONS REFORMERS NETWORK$120,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALBANY$110,000
RESOURCE IMPACT$51,000
DETROIT DISABILITY POWER$41,216
WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES$20,000
RETURN STRONG$20,000
ARIZONA NATIVE VOTE$20,000
HE SAPA VOTERS COUNCIL$20,000
ROSALYNN CARTER INST FOR CAREGI$20,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOC: $10k → 13%ROSALYNN CARTER INSTITUTE: $40k → 22%ROSALYNN CARTER INST FOR CAREGI: $20k → 22%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $60k → 13%VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN: $60k → 13%Voices for Georgia's Children: $32k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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AZ
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GA

Grants abroad, by region — $7.8M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $7.8M to organizations and $15k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$5.6M · 72% · 92 grants

Stated purpose: 1 · 3 · 4

South America$1.4M · 18% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: 2 · 6 · 53

East Asia and the Pacific$255k · 3% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: 11 · 19 · 38

Middle East and North Africa$215k · 3% · 1 grant · 3 people

Stated purpose: 7 · JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS

Cent. Amer./carib.$147k · 2% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: 8 · 81

South Asia$79k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: 12

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$57k · 1% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: 43 · 50 · 109

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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 8 repeat orgs$591k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$3.0M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+32%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $451k 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
Civil RightsHuman ServicesEducationSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • RC
    ROOT CHANGE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +13%
  • GA
    GEORGIA APPLESEED INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $178k · revenue +147%
  • VF
    VOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $152k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INNOVATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -77%
  • AA
    ACLED ANALYSIS INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +154%
  • JO
    JOURNAL OF FEMINIST STUDIES IN RELIGION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +14%

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.

1
The Equal Voting Rights Institute

To protect and, where necessary, restore the primacy of all americans shared civil rights. the acr project exists to systematically sponsor litigation, file administrative complaints, participate in rulemaking, and educate both government…

Crime & Legal
2
The Center for Election Innovation & Research

CEIR seeks to restore trust in the American election system and promote election procedures that encourage participation while ensuring election integrity and security.

Civil Rights
3
Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Civicus is a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.

Youth Development
4
Public Agenda Inc

Public agenda strengthens american democracy by connecting research to action enabling people and institutions to pursue changes that make a difference. we amplify the voices of americans and help communities discover and build on common…

5
America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement
6
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
7
Center for Competitive Democracy

The center works to strengthen american democracy by increasing electoral competition by identifying and eliminating barriers to political participation in an effort to secure free, open and competitive elections by fostering active civic…

Civil Rights
8
Voteorg

Vote.org's primary purpose is to build web-based technologies that remove barriers to voting and increase vote turnout.

Civil Rights
9
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
12
Common Cause

With offices in washington d.c. and 25 states and 1.5 million supporters and activists, common cause works to advance democracy reforms at federal, state, and local levels, through drafting model legislation, lobbying, public engagement,…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Global Health Innovation and the most unlike its peers is Election Reformers Network Inc. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EMORY UNIVERSITY — $1,671,472 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITYTeam Democracy Action — $200,000 · OtherTeam Democracy Action+8 more — $248,856 · Other+8 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ALBANY INC — $565,470 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS…GEORGIA APPLESEED INC — $177,963 · Civil RightsGEORGIA AP…ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC — $120,000 · Civil RightsELECTION R…Arizona Native Vote — $20,000 · Civil RightsArizona Na…+1 more — $9,000 · Civil RightsROOT CHANGE INC — $225,000 · EmploymentVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC — $152,000 · Human ServicesROSALYNN CARTER INSTITUTE FOR CAREGIVERS — $60,000 · Human ServicesLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION — $9,500 · Human ServicesRESOURCE IMPACT — $51,000 · EducationGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $6,291 · EducationACLED ANALYSIS INCORPORATED — $30,000 · International
Other$2,120,328Youth Development$565,470Civil Rights$326,963Employment$225,000Human Services$221,500Education$57,291International$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ALBANY INC — $565,470 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetROOT CHANGE INC — $225,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetGEORGIA APPLESEED INC — $177,963 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetVOICES FOR GEORGIA'S CHILDREN INC — $152,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC — $120,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetROSALYNN CARTER INSTITUTE FOR CAREGIVERS — $60,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetNEW MEXICO FIRST — $52,080 over 2y, 14% of budgetMICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION — $51,776 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRESOURCE IMPACT — $51,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INNOVATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACLED ANALYSIS INCORPORATED — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetArizona Native Vote — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRO ROMERO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION — $9,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $6,291 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Georgia Power Foundation IncGA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Carter Center Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report 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, FY2025

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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