[423] In 2007, with Bill Clinton, he founded the New Baptist Covenant organization for social justice.[428]

Family
Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran, holds Jimmy Carter IV while Rosalynn Carter, Caron Carter and Chip Carter watch, January 1978.
Carter had three younger siblings, all of whom died of pancreatic cancer: sisters Gloria Spann (1926–1990) and Ruth Stapleton (1929–1983), and brother Billy Carter (1937–1988).[429] He was first cousin to politician Hugh Carter and a distant cousin to the Carter family of musicians.[430]
He is related to Motown founder Berry Gordy by way of their White great-grandfather James Thomas Gordy, who had a relationship with a black female slave he owned.[431]
Carter married Rosalynn Smith on July 7, 1946, in the Plains Methodist Church, the church of Rosalynn's family.[432] They have three sons, Jack, James III, and Donnel; one daughter, Amy; nine grandsons (one of whom is deceased), three granddaughters, five great-grandsons, and eight great-granddaughters.[433] Mary Prince (an African American woman wrongly convicted of murder, and later pardoned) was their daughter Amy's nanny for most of the period from 1971 until Jimmy Carter's presidency ended.