Funding search · EIN 136957038 · New York, NY

Carson Family Charitable Trust

Name: Carson Family Charitable Trust grants, 2021–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

523
grants reported: $217.8M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $200,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Genomics and biomedical research institutes in New York City
Charter schools and K-12 education reform organizations
NYC parks, libraries, museums and cultural institutions
Poverty, workforce and youth-development nonprofits in Brooklyn and Bronx
Immigration legal services and refugee resettlement
Private colleges, including alma mater style gifts

Typical grant

Median grant is $200,000, with the middle half between $100,000 and about $361,000. The very large checks, $1 million to over $6 million, go to a short list of anchor institutions like New York Genome Center, Robin Hood, Rockefeller University, Central Park Conservancy and Uncommon Schools, while most everything else sits at $100,000 to $500,000. With 523 grants to 256 recipients over four years, roughly half of grantees are repeat, so annual renewal at a similar level is the norm.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT”

Positioning adjacent work

Anchor to their genomics and stem cell giving: New York Genome Center, NY Stem Cell Foundation, Rockefeller, MSKCC.
Ask $150,000 to $350,000 for a first grant; seven figures goes only to long-standing anchors.
Request unrestricted operating support, not project funding. Every single grant is coded general operating.
Emphasize a New York City base and NYC beneficiaries; 436 of 523 grants stayed in state.

Worth knowing: This is overwhelmingly a New York City funder with a small Millbrook and Berkshire Taconic side interest reflecting a second home base, plus scattered gifts to Dartmouth, Kenyon and DC institutions that read as personal ties. The top ten recipients absorb well over half the dollars, and the all-general-operating pattern signals trustee-driven relationship giving rather than proposal review, so a warm introduction matters more than a strong concept paper.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

New York Genome Center3 grants · $17.7M
Manhattan Marymount College3 grants · $14.3M
Robin Hood Foundation3 grants · $8.5M
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital5 grants · $8.2M
Marymount Manhattan College6 grants · $7.7M
Central Park Conservancy4 grants · $6.7M
The Rockefeller University4 grants · $6.3M
Rockefeller University5 grants · $6.1M
Uncommon Schools3 grants · $6.0M
Columbia Business School5 grants · $4.3M

Giving over time

$58.0M

2021

$60.2M

2022

$49.1M

2023

$50.5M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 523 grants.

$10.3M
Manhattan Marymount College · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$6.5M
New York Genome Center · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$6.2M
New York Genome Center · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$5.0M
New York Genome Center · New York, NY · 2022
Matching grant with simons foundation
$4.0M
Columbia Business School · Ny, NY · 2021
Capital Campaign
$3.3M
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY · 2022
To support the columbia business school capital campaign
$3.0M
Robin Hood Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$3.0M
Rockefeller University · Ny, NY · 2021
unrestricted use as part of the University's Capital Campaign
$2.9M
Thorne Building Community Center · Millbrook, NY · 2021
Campaign for Millbrook
$2.8M
Marymount Manhattan College · Ny, NY · 2021
Judith Mara Carson Center for Visual Arts
$2.8M
Robin Hood Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$2.8M
Robin Hood Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$2.7M
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$2.7M
Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$2.6M
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$2.5M
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital · New York, NY · 2022
To support the ny women's genetic center
$2.1M
Central Park Conservancy · Ny, NY · 2021
Harlem Meer Project: North End of Central Park Paid by stock transfer
$2.1M
The Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$2.1M
The Partnership Schools · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$2.1M
The Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$2.0M
Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$2.0M
Manhattan Marymount College · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$2.0M
Millbrook Community Partnership · Millbrook, NY · 2024
General operating support
$2.0M
Uncommon Schools · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$2.0M
Manhattan Marymount College · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$2.0M
Uncommon Schools · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$2.0M
The Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2022
To support the president's fund honoring rick lifton
$2.0M
Uncommon Schools · New York, NY · 2022
Computer science
$2.0M
Breaking Ground Hdfc · Ny, NY · 2021
The Paramount as Transitional and Supportive housing
$2.0M
Marymount Manhattan College · Ny, NY · 2021
Unrestricted Scholarship Fund
$2.0M
New York-Presbyterian Hospital · Ny, NY · 2021
construction, equipping and operation of the Hospital for Women and Newborns in the David H. Koch building
$2.0M
Robin Hood Foundation · Ny, NY · 2021
General Operating Support
$2.0M
Rockefeller University · Ny, NY · 2021
Presidents Fund in honor of Rick Lifton
$2.0M
Uncommon Schools · Ny, NY · 2021
Unrestricted Support and support of Computer Science program through 2023
$1.8M
Central Park Conservancy · New York, NY · 2022
To support the harlem meer project
$1.5M
Marymount Manhattan College · Ny, NY · 2021
Judith Mara Carson Center for Visual Arts
$1.3M
Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$1.3M
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$1.3M
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$1.2M
Brooklyn Public Library · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General operating support
$1.2M
Trustees of Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2023
General operating support
$1.2M
Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$1.2M
Marymount Manhattan College · Ny, NY · 2021
Judith Mara Carson Center for Visual Arts
$1.2M
Trustees of Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2024
General operating support
$1.1M
Trustees of Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2022
To support the president's discretionary fund
$1.0M
University of Mount Saint Vincent · Riverdale, NY · 2024
General operating support
$1.0M
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$1.0M
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts · New York, NY · 2022
To support the david geffen hall
$1.0M
Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2021
to address the College's priorities at the discretion of the President of Dartmouth College
$1.0M
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts · Ny, NY · 2021
David Geffen Hall
$1.0M
Robin Hood Foundation · Ny, NY · 2021
Covid Relief Fund
$1.0M
Rockefeller University · Ny, NY · 2021
Campaign for the Convergence of Science and Medicine
$1.0M
The Partnership Schools · Ny, NY · 2021
general operating support
$900,000
50can · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support
$750,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$750,000
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$750,000
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$750,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$750,000
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$750,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2022
To support the president's strategic initiatives fund
$750,000
Mercy University · Dobbs Ferry, NY · 2022
Nyc operating support for the seizing every opportunity program
$750,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center · Ny, NY · 2021
Presidential Innovation Fund
$750,000
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity · Ny, NY · 2021
Operating Support
$729,620
50can · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support
$727,518
50can · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support
$725,000
Kipp New York · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support for nyc operations
$600,000
Kipp New York · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$600,000
National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$600,000
Kipp New York · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$600,000
Make the Road New York · Jackson Heights, NY · 2022
General operating support
$550,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$525,000
Prospect Park Alliance · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
American Society for Technion - Israel Institute of Technology · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Envision Freedom Fund · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Goddard Riverside Community Center · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Good Shepherd Services · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Harlem Childrens Zone · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Make the Road New York · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
New Classrooms Innovation Partners · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
New York City Center for Charter School Excellence · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
The Children'S Aid Society · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
American Society for Technion - Israel Institute of Technology · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Envision Freedom Fund · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Good Shepherd Services · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Harlem Childrens Zone · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Make the Road New York · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
New Classrooms Innovation Partners · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
New York City Center for Charter School Excellence · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
The Children'S Aid Society · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
World Trade Center Performing Arts Center · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
American Society for Technion - Israel Institute of Technology · New York, NY · 2022
To support the jacobs institute
$500,000
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2022
To support the arts of africa, oceania, and the americas galleries
$500,000
New Classrooms Innovation Partners · New York, NY · 2022
To support the math as a driver of social equity campaign
$500,000
New York City Center for Charter School Excellence · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
New York Public Radio · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support for wqxr

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