· Private foundation
The Eric and Barbara Carle 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $197k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC | $3,155,405 |
| ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP DBA NATIONAL SAWDUST | $87,215 |
| GLSEN INC | $60,000 |
| BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| VISION INTO ART PRESENTS INC | $25,000 |
| BUSHWICK BOOK CLUB | $15,000 |
| NORTH BROOLYN PARKS ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| THE ASHLEY BRYAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN | $10,000 |
| HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC DBA THE FIELD | $6,250 |
| BLOWING ROCK CHARITY HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TETHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC8× · 2018–2025 · $15M · revenue +112% · 61% of their budget
- TATHE ASHLEY BRYAN CENTER5× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +5%
- EMEPIPHANY MAGAZINE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- OSOCEAN STUDIES CHARTER SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +228%
- JGJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +61%
- TOTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +68%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Teen art salon provides young people open-door, free-of-charge art instruction and materials to establish and advance individual studio practices.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
To inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers and excite learners of all ages about the power, promise, and pure fun of science and technology.lsc offers exceptional science learning onsite, offsite, and online as well as…
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."
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Odyssey School Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Performance Zone Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC ↗
- Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE ASHLEY BRYAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds EPIPHANY MAGAZINE INC ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VISION INTO ARTS PRESENTS INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOWING ROCK CHARITY HORSE SHOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Art Students League Of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Mutual of America Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Franklin Land Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc — 4% of income from government
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.
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