California · Private foundation
Cara 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.
- $2k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Cara Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $2k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $3k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $5k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $2k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington University | $6,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Elizabeth F Gamble Garden | $1,242 | 5 | 0% |
| Hawaii Preparatory Academy | $1,150 | 3 | 0% |
| Palo Alto Chinese School | $786 | 2 | 0% |
| Chang Sen Xue Longevity Association of USA | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $105 | 1 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $103 | 1 | 0% |
| Santa Clara Valley Beekeepers Guild | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cara Foundation
- How much does Cara Foundation give?
- Cara Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $1,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Cara Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Community Improvement (29%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Cara Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Washington University ($7k), Elizabeth F Gamble Garden ($1k), Hawaii Preparatory Academy ($1k).
- Does Cara Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cara 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 Cara Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Cara Foundation based?
- Cara Foundation is based in CA.
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