· Private foundation
The Carter Family Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k29 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BRONCO BENCH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY | $2,500 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE | $2,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC | $2,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP MITTY HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 5% of The Carter Family Charitable Foundation Inc’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 +39% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +39%
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +12%
- BBBRONCO BENCH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +128%
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY-GREATER SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2017 · $1k
ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +20%
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.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
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Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
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How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRONCO BENCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES FOR BRAIN INJURY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DICKSATHON ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY MOTHER COUNTS ↗
- Who funds Well Constructed ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Stephen C & Patricia A Schott Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Charity Bridge Fund · Bright Funds Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · The Catholic Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · American Gift Fund · Matt & Gretchen Dinapoli Family Foundation · Sosj Knights Hospitaller Priory of the Western USA
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carter Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carter Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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