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CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC

CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,944 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($53,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$659k
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$154k
Grants received
$272k
Net assets
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC's revenue grew 56% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve6.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($422k) Expenses 100 ($390k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2018 Revenue 120 ($504k) Expenses 112 ($435k) Net assets 382 ($93k)2019 Revenue 124 ($523k) Expenses 119 ($463k) Net assets 628 ($153k)2020 Revenue 32 ($135k) Expenses 28 ($108k) Net assets 739 ($180k)2021 Revenue 24 ($101k) Expenses 14 ($53k) Net assets 936 ($228k)2022 Revenue 238 ($1.0M) Expenses 260 ($1.0M) Net assets 885 ($216k)2023 Revenue 138 ($581k) Expenses 145 ($567k) Net assets 944 ($230k)2024 Revenue 148 ($626k) Expenses 156 ($609k) Net assets 1014 ($247k)2025 Revenue 156 ($659k) Expenses 163 ($635k) Net assets 1114 ($272k)
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Revenue (156)Expenses (163)Net assets (1114)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

33% of CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$31k
17
$69k
18
$60k
19
$27k
20
$48k
21
$12k
22
$14k
23
$17k
24
$24k
25
6.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $22k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)79% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $39k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC raised.

From the IRS filings of CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND 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

CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

79% 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 CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC.

35%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 72% · 2023 45%diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

60% of CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

79% of CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $32k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

MO
TN
LA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

18
19
22
23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Great River Carnival Association · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC?
CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,944 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($53,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $153,944 in grants to CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $53,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARNIVAL EDUCATIONAL FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing