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CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC

CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,297 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK ($37,297). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$55k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$42k
Net assets
$38k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Carabiner Collections Inc does

Mission

Carabiner collections is an lgbtq community-run library serving the brazos valley, which is exclusively for charitable and educational purposes.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. June 2025 pride event.

    $3,800 spent
    30% of program spending
  2. A bookmobile - which allows us to safely transport our books.

    $8,994 spent
    70% of program spending
  3. We co-hosted a banned book giveaway and literary dance party with the author lemony snicket.

    $0 spentof which $272 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,794.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC.

88%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 2 states in all.

MT
MO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin68% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TX

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC?
CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,297 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK ($37,297). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $42,297 in grants to CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC.
Who is the largest funder of CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC?
FOUNDATION TO DECREASE WORLD SUCK is the largest funder on record, with $37,297 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARABINER COLLECTIONS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing