Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Carita Foundation-Ima
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $350k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 66
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Carita Foundation-Ima funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 58 | $350k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $267k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $263k | 49% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $351k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $258k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Friends Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Shipley School | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Gesu School Inc | $38,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chester County Food Bank | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Philosophical Society | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Whyy Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Laurel House Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($462k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Carita Foundation-Ima supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Neubauer Family Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Chester County Community Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation
How this is measured
About Carita Foundation-Ima
- How much does Carita Foundation-Ima give?
- Carita Foundation-Ima reported 58 grants totaling $350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 66 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Carita Foundation-Ima fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Carita Foundation-Ima's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Food & Friends Inc ($75k), Shipley School ($70k), The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ($50k).
- Does Carita Foundation-Ima fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carita Foundation-Ima 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 Carita Foundation-Ima?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Connelly Foundation.
- Where is Carita Foundation-Ima based?
- Carita Foundation-Ima is based in PA.
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