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Elia & Fannie Karas Foundation Inc at a glance

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Elia & Fannie Karas Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$178k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$353kReligion$243kEducation$179kCrime & Legal$67kRecreation & Sports$57kYouth Development$40kPhilanthropy$39kArts & Culture$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$774k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROHN & COLITIS FOUNDATION$105,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$20,000
SHIRAT HAYAM$15,500
ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY$10,000
KELLIE KENNEDY GOLF CLASSIC$5,000
ITALIAN HERITAGE MONTH COMMITTEE OF MASSACHUSETTS$5,000
OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION$5,000
BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL$2,500
TEMPLE ISRAEL OF SHARON$2,400
FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE$2,000
PURPURA FAMILY FOUNDATION$2,000
JCC OF THE NORTH SHORE$1,825
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000
MARR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$469k · 14 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$469k
$523k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
-1%

Still filing today

57%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $210k · revenue +4%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $67k · revenue +54%
  • OP
    OGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • BL
    BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $179k · revenue -16%
  • CM
    CONGREGATION MISHKAN TEFILA
    one grant, 2021 · $120k
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITITS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2021 · $110k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
2
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
5
Friends of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Friends of dana-farber cancer institute supports the efforts of the dana-farber cancer institute.

Health
6
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
7
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
8
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Foundation

The frederik meijer gardens & sculpture foundation is a single purpose foundation with an endowment fund to support the frederik meijer gardens & sculpture park. the most significant activities for the year were the investment decisions…

Environment
9
Hebrew Seniorlife Hospice Care Inc

The mission of hsl hospice is to provide exceptional care to terminally ill patients and their families allowing patients to attain the highest quality of life possible. hsl hospice aims to provide the highest quality hospice service that…

Human Services
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
12
Institute for Applied Gerontology

The mjhs institute for innovation in palliative care is a not-for-profit organization. the institute is dedicated to promoting access to evidence-based, specialist-level palliative care for patients and families coping with serious or…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the High Line Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marr Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION MISHKAN TEFILA: $120,000 · OtherCONGREGATION MISHKAN TEFILACROHN'S & COLITITS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA (CCFA): $110,000 · OtherCROHN'S & COLITITS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA (CCFA)BETH ISRAEL: $50,000 · OtherBETH ISRAELFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $40,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENSHIRAT HAYAM: $38,025 · OtherSHIRAT HAYAMCONGREGATION SHIRAT HAYAM: $20,000 · Other+12 more: $58,425 · Other+12 moreCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDA…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $5,500 · HealthBOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $179,498 · EducationBOSTON LATIN SCHOOL…FRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC: $66,900 · Civil RightsROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC: $45,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,250 · Recreation & SportsCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $2,200 · PhilanthropyOGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION: $27,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $3,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$436,450Health$225,500Education$179,498Civil Rights$66,900Recreation & Sports$46,250Philanthropy$37,200Arts & Culture$30,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $210,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON LATIN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $179,498 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC: $66,900 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOGUNQUIT PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIRYAM INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAPPIN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PURPURA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON: $2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST GENERATION INVESTORS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PINK AGENDA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Fidelity FoundationNational Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elia & Fannie Karas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elia & Fannie Karas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Friends of Children Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Elia & Fannie Karas Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 32 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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