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Thomas S Carter Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$556k
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
10
Organizations funded FY2019
90%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$125,334
Organizations funded a year
10 to 33
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 90% of the organizations Thomas S Carter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $546k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
ReligionEducationCivil RightsOther
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
FY201910$556k90%
FY201827$2k48%
FY201733$3kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Religion$294kEducation$130kArts & Culture$125kHuman Services$11kHealth$616International$385Housing & Shelter$212Civil Rights$145Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Morgan Arts Council Inc$125,334160%
All Saints Episcopal School$10,1502n/a
Southern Methodist University$10,00010%
Mercy Corps$24520%
Covenant House$21220%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$1752n/a
Mercy Ships International$14020%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$10520%
Lone Star Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America$1051n/a
National Arbor Day Foundation$10520%
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All grantees of Thomas S Carter Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Morgan Arts Council Inc$125,334160%
All Saints Episcopal School$10,1502n/a
Southern Methodist University$10,00010%
Mercy Corps$24520%
Covenant House$21220%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$1752n/a
Mercy Ships International$14020%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$10520%
Lone Star Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America$1051n/a
National Arbor Day Foundation$10520%
Blinded Veterans Association$10520%
American Cancer Society Inc$7020%
Dallas Theological Seminary$7010%
Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation$7010%
St Labre Indian School$601n/a
Calvary Commission Inc$5010%
Chosen People Ministries Inc$361n/a
American Macular Degeneration Goehring$3510%
American Constitutional Rights Union$3510%
Judicial Watch Inc$3510%
In Jesus Name Ministries$351n/a
March of Dimes Inc$351n/a
St Josephs Indian School$351n/a
Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc$3010%
United States Law Enforcement Foundation Inc$301n/a
The Presidential Prayer Team$2510%
First Liberty Institute$251n/a
Bible Teaching Resources$251n/a
Gideons International$241n/a

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($414k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Thomas S Carter Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMorgan Arts Council Inc: $125,334 over 1y, 60% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $245 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $212 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $105 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Arbor Day Foundation: $105 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlinded Veterans Association: $105 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $70 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Theological Seminary: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCongressional Prayer Caucus Foundation: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalvary Commission Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Macular Degeneration Goehring: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Constitutional Rights Union: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Doors With Brother Andrew Inc: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Presidential Prayer Team: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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 17.

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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.

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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 Thomas S Carter Foundation

How much does Thomas S Carter Foundation give?
Thomas S Carter Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $555,961 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Thomas S Carter Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Religion (52%), Education (23%), Arts & Culture (22%).
Who are Thomas S Carter Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Morgan Arts Council Inc ($125k), All Saints Episcopal School ($10k), Southern Methodist University ($10k).
Does Thomas S Carter Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas S Carter Foundation 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 Thomas S Carter Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Thomas S Carter Foundation based?
Thomas S Carter Foundation is based in TX.

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 57 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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