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The Sara and David Carson Family 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.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of THE SARA AND DAVID CARSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$213k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST STEPHENS & ST AGNES SCHOOL$5,000
BRAZILIAN RESOURCE CENTER$5,000
MARCH OF DIMES CHICAGO$5,000
CHAPEL OF ST JAMES THE FISHERMAN$4,000
FOODSHARE CT$4,000
PLACE OF GRACE FOOD PANTRY$3,000
4-H EDUCATION CENTER AT AUER FARM$2,000
THE SIMON FOUNDATION$2,000
JOURNEY HOME CONNECTICUT$2,000
LITTLE SISTER'S OF THE POOR$1,000
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CAPE COD WOMEN & GIRL'S FUND CO CAPE COD FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%WILSON COLLEGE WOMEN - SINGLE PARENT SCHOLAR PROGRAM: $3k → 9%WINNERS LACROSSE: $3k → 14%MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $3k → 12%MARCH OF DIMES CHICAGO: $5k → 14%ST STEPHENS & ST AGNES SCHOOL: $6k → 9%CAPE COD WOMEN AND GIRLS FUND: $5k → 8%WILSON COLLEGE WOMEN CO SINGLE PARENT SCHOLAR PROGRAM: $3k → 9%WINNERS LACROSSE: $3k → 14%MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 11%ST STEPHENS & ST AGNES SCHOOL: $6k → 9%CAPE COD WOMEN & GIRL'S FUND CO CAPE COD FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%WILSON COLLEGE WOMEN CO SINGLE PARENT SCHOLAR PROGRAM: $3k → 9%FOODSHARE CT: $4k → 12%ST STEPHENS & ST AGNES SCHOOL: $5k → 9%WILSON COLLEGE WOMEN CO SINGLE PARENT SCHOLAR PROGRAM: $3k → 9%FOODSHARE CT: $3k → 12%ST STEPHENS & ST AGNES SCHOOL: $5k → 9%CAPE COD WOMEN & GIRL'S FUND CO CAPE COD FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ST STEPHENS & ST AGNES SCHOOL: $5k → 9%FOODSHARE CT: $3k → 11%ST STEPHENS & ST AGNES SCHOOL: $5k → 9%CAPE COD PET COLLECTIVE CO CAPE COD FOUNDATION: $4k → 8%FOODSHARE CT: $3k → 11%ST STEPHENS & ST AGNES SCHOOL: $5k → 9%FOODSHARE CT: $3k → 11%ST STEPHENS & ST AGNES SCHOOL: $5k → 9%FAMILY TABLE COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 8%FOODSHARE CT: $3k → 11%ST STEPHENS & ST AGNES SCHOOL: $5k → 9%MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA: $4k → 9%MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA: $4k → 9%MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA: $4k → 9%BRAZILIAN RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 8%MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA: $4k → 9%BRAZILIAN RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 8%MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA: $4k → 9%HYANNIS MAIN STREET BID: $4k → 8%DOWNTOWN HYANNIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $3k → 8%CAPE COD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES: $3k → 8%CAPE COD ANIMAL CARE AND ADOPTION CENTER: $4k → 8%CAPE COD ANIMAL CARE AND ADOPTION CENTER: $3k → 8%THE SAMPSON FUND VETERINARY CARE: $3k → 8%CHAPEL OF ST JAMES THE FISHERMAN: $4k → 8%JOURNEY HOME CONNECTICUT: $3k → 11%PLACE OF GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 11%JOURNEY HOME CONNECTICUT: $3k → 11%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

IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
VA
DC

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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$271k · 22 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
15

Total granted

$271k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+70%

Still filing today

45%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementInternationalAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SS
    ST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +123%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +234%
  • 4E
    4-H EDUCATION CENTER AT AUERFARM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • CC
    CAPE COD PET COLLECTIVE CO CAPE COD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • DH
    DOWNTOWN HYANNIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue ×21 · 39% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SAMPSON FUND FOR VETERINARY CARE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +212%

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
Hospital Association of Rhode Island

To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…

2
Long Island Partnership Housing Development Fund Corporation Inc

Long island partnership housing development fund company, inc. was formed for the purpose of acquiring and holding title to land from government and private sources, securing financing through various government and private grants for…

Housing & Shelter
3
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
4
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
5
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
6
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint francis hospital and medical center is a member of trinity…

Health
7
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
8
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.

9
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
10
The Humane Society of Harford County Inc

The humane society of harford county's mission is to promote the humane treatment of homeless, stray and abandoned animals by providing shelter, care, adoptions and community education.

Animals
11
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…

Philanthropy
12
Housing Assistance Corporation

Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haitian Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Simon Foundation 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

19 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. 19 of the 39 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $28,500 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INCJOURNEY HOME CONNECTICUT — $18,500 · OtherJOURNEY HOME CONNECTICUTWILSON COLLEGE WOMEN CO SINGLE PARENT SCHOLAR PROGRAM — $18,000 · OtherWILSON COLLEGE WOMEN CO SINGLE PARENT SCHOLAR PROGRAMFOODSHARE INC — $17,000 · OtherFOODSHARE INCCAPE COD WOMEN & GIRL'S FUND CO CAPE COD FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherCAPE COD WOMEN & GIRL'S FUND CO CAPE COD FOUNDATIONMALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 · OtherMALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INCCAPE COD ANIMAL CARE AND ADOPTION CENTER — $9,000 · OtherYMCA CAPE COD — $8,000 · OtherCAPE COD WOMEN AND GIRLS FUND — $7,500 · OtherFOODSHARE CT — $7,000 · Other+19 more — $54,000 · Other+19 moreST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $47,000 · EducationST STEPHEN'S AND ST A…THE FOUNDATION FOR WEST HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $12,500 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR WE…4-H EDUCATION CENTER AT AUERFARM INC — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SIMON FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 · AnimalsTHE SAMPSON FUND FOR VETERINARY CARE INC — $3,000 · AnimalsWASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION — $10,500 · Recreation & SportsELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsBRAZILIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitHYANNIS MAIN STREET BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC — $6,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN HYANNIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$193,500Education$59,500Youth Development$17,500Animals$12,500Recreation & Sports$11,500Public Benefit$10,000Community Improvement$9,000

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 budgetST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $47,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $28,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budget4-H EDUCATION CENTER AT AUERFARM INC — $17,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFOODSHARE INC — $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR WEST HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $12,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetMALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBRAZILIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE SIMON FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHYANNIS MAIN STREET BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC — $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN HYANNIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $3,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetTHE SAMPSON FUND FOR VETERINARY CARE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetORDER OF MALTA WORLDWIDE RELIEF MALTESER INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds ST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC
  • Who funds 4-H EDUCATION CENTER AT AUERFARM INC
  • Who funds FOODSHARE INC
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR WEST HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
  • Who funds MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BRAZILIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE SIMON FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HYANNIS MAIN STREET BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN HYANNIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds THE SAMPSON FUND FOR VETERINARY CARE INC
  • Who funds FAMILY TABLE COLLABORATIVE INC
  • Who funds HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC
  • Who funds ORDER OF MALTA WORLDWIDE RELIEF MALTESER INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS
  • Who funds HIAS INC
  • Who funds ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY 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.

Cape Cod Foundation IncMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Sara and David Carson Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 25%
  • Hias Inc88% of income from government
  • The Bridge Family Center Inc61% of income from government
  • 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm Inc25% of income from government
  • Three Bays Preservation Inc18% of income from government
  • Downtown Hyannis Community Development Corporation2% of income from government
  • Family Table Collaborative Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 39 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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