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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 FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$213k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsCommunity ImprovementInternationalPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$34k18%
FY202410$33k40%
FY202312$33k8%
FY202219$41k37%
FY202115$36k13%
FY202016$36k13%
FY201915$35k20%
FY201814$34k29%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$78kHealth$40kPhilanthropy$35kFood & Nutrition$31kHousing & Shelter$19kYouth Development$18kAnimals$16kHuman Services$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
VA
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc give?
The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $34,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Health (13%), Philanthropy (11%).
Who are The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Stephen's and St Agnes School Foundation ($47k), Mental Health America Inc ($29k), 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm Inc ($18k).
Does The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Aetna Foundation Inc, The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation.
Where is The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc based?
The Sara and David Carson Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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