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William Carson Foundation co Elizabeth Becker at a glance

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William Carson Foundation co Elizabeth Becker

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Philanthropy$21kEducation$19kArts & Culture$11kHealth$5kRecreation & Sports$4kHousing & Shelter$2kReligion$648Other$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$16,798
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE GIVING DONOR ADVISED FUND$16,798
EVANSVILLE WARTIME MUSEUM$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%YMCA Camp Carson: $3k → 10%CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $2k → 13%EVANSVILLE WARTIME MUSEUM: $5k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%YMCA Camp Carson: $2k → 10%CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $2k → 13%WILLIARD LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%OCONEE PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $1k → 14%YMCA Camp Carson: $1k → 10%CULVER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $1k → 13%WILLIARD LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%OCONEE PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $1k → 14%NOTRE DAME CLUB OF ATLANTA: $310 → 13%WILLIARD LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%OCONEE PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY: $1k → 14%Junior Achievement of Southwestern Indiana: $500 → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 → 14%Junior Achievement of Southwestern Indiana: $500 → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 → 14%Junior Achievement of Southwestern Indiana: $500 → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $500 → 14%FR VINCENT CAPODANNO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ASSEMBLY: $298 → 14%CHRIST OUR KING AND SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH: $250 → 14%FR VINCENT CAPODANNO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ASSEMBLY: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41k · 12 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$41k
$560

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’23
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Culver Educational Foundation
    3× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +39%
  • OP
    OCONEE PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +62%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • ND
    NOTRE DAME CLUB OF ATLANTA
    one grant, 2019 · $310
  • CO
    CHRIST OUR KING AND SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $250
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Evans Scholars Foundation - Indiana

Educational

Education
2
Evansville Museum of Arts History & Science

The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.

Arts & Culture
3
Willard Library of Evansville

To provide services to the general public.

Education
4
Evansville Lutheran School Foundation

To financially support the operation of evansville lutheran school

Education
5
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
6
Trustees of Purdue University

Foster, encourage, and provide the means and facilities for the education of young people

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7
Evans Scholars Foundation - Northern Illinois

Educational

Education
8
Old Evansville Historic Association Inc

To protect, enhance and perpetuate the distinctive and significant elements of the old historic district of evansville, indiana.

Human Services
9
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
10
University of Indianapolis

The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.

Education
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
Otterbein University

Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwestern Indiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHWAB CHARITABLE GIVING DONOR ADVISED FUND: $16,798 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE GIVING DONOR ADVISED FUNDGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,500 · Other+3 more: $958 · OtherCulver Educational Foundation: $11,000 · EducationCulver Educational FoundationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $4,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $2,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLECATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE INC: $1,500 · EducationCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION DI…EWM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEWM INCOCONEE PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureOCONEE PERFORMING…EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL: $2,500 · Arts & CultureEVANSVILLE PHILHA…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $4,500 · PhilanthropyWillard Library Foundation Inc: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc: $1,500 · International
Other$29,256Education$19,000Arts & Culture$10,500Philanthropy$4,500Recreation & Sports$2,500International$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCulver Educational Foundation: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEWM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCONEE PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAL: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWillard Library Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION DIOCESE OF EVANSVILLE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Braun Family Foundati…Community Foundation …The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust CoIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Braun Family Foundation Inc co Jim Burger ONB Trust Co · Community Foundation Alliance Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William Carson Foundation co Elizabeth Becker funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Carson Foundation co Elizabeth Becker. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 17 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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