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Missouri · Private foundation

Betty I and Karl B Search

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,100
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,230
Organizations funded a year
7 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$377k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Betty I and Karl B Search funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23’24
EducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving10$22k40%
FY20247$22k71%
FY202313$23k100%
FY202213$22k100%
FY202019$24k95%
FY20198$22k88%
FY201812$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$179kArts & Culture$1k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
PA
VA
SC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Misericordia University$12,30030%
Pennsylvania State University$5,7501n/a
Elizabethtown College$5,33010%
Desales University$4,48510%
Liberty University Inc$4,10020%
Villanova University$3,85010%
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit$3,40010%
King's College$3,31920%
Messiah University$2,50010%
Susquehanna University$2,47520%
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All grantees of Betty I and Karl B Search by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Misericordia University$12,30030%
Pennsylvania State University$5,7501n/a
Elizabethtown College$5,33010%
Desales University$4,48510%
Liberty University Inc$4,10020%
Villanova University$3,85010%
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit$3,40010%
King's College$3,31920%
Messiah University$2,50010%
Susquehanna University$2,47520%
Bucknell University$2,32510%
Wilkes University$2,20010%
Rosemont College of the Holy Child Jesus$1,96610%
Drexel University$1,75010%
University of Scranton$1,37510%
The University of the Arts$1,25010%
Lehigh University$1,25010%
Washington State University$1,0001n/a
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$50010%

Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Betty I and Karl B Search supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMisericordia University: $12,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetElizabethtown College: $5,330 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDesales University: $4,485 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty University Inc: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVillanova University: $3,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuquesne University of the Holy Spirit: $3,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKing's College: $3,319 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMessiah University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSusquehanna University: $2,475 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $2,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilkes University: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosemont College of the Holy Child Jesus: $1,966 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrexel University: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $1,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of the Arts: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLehigh University: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $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 17.

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About Betty I and Karl B Search

How much does Betty I and Karl B Search give?
Betty I and Karl B Search reported 13 grants totaling $22,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Betty I and Karl B Search fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Betty I and Karl B Search's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Misericordia University ($12k), Pennsylvania State University ($6k), Elizabethtown College ($5k).
Does Betty I and Karl B Search fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Betty I and Karl B Search accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Betty I and Karl B Search based?
Betty I and Karl B Search is based in MO.

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 73 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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