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Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$123k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$41,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$106k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$123k45%
FY202312$86k42%
FY202211$89k55%
FY202115$103k73%
FY202010$70k60%
FY20197$175k100%
FY20181$2k100%
FY20171$1kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$259kArts & Culture$200kCommunity Improvement$70kHuman Services$35kPhilanthropy$26kYouth Development$21kHealth$20kScience & Tech$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
MO
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($194k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashington University: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArmand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc: $83,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVia Art Fund Inc: $47,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Colorado College: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Country Day School: $23,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA Place Called Home: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWesleyan University: $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSga Youth & Family Services Nfp: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetErikson Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMisericordia Home: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBennington College Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrchestra Santa Monica Association: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarak Ballet Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetStep Up Tutoring: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum Associates: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Library Foundation of Los Angeles: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMisericordia Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSugar Ray Leonard Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTower Cancer Research Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhase One Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPueblo Nuevo Education and Development G: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation

How much does Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation give?
Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $123,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (31%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Washington University ($130k), Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc ($84k), Via Art Fund Inc ($47k).
Does Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation based?
Beth & Ken Karmin Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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