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KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being THE LAZARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Ken Carlson Jr Memorial Foundation does
Mission
The exempt purpose of the foundation is to provide scholarship monies to an individual or individuals for post-secondary education and/or to donate for medical research, awareness, and/or detection of cardiomyopathy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Created an endowment Scholarship at Rutgers University for students in the Liberal Arts program.
$0 spentof which $10,000 as grantsGave out college scholarships to 5 Whippany high school students.
$0 spentof which $4,000 as grants
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $42k to $46k (+9%).
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.
100% of KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $300 → $400.
From the IRS filings of KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,500 to it, the largest being THE LAZARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,500 in grants to KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- THE LAZARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEN CARLSON JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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