New Jersey · Private foundation
Foster Karney Trust Foundation
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.
- $242k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Foster Karney Trust Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 19 | $242k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $206k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $212k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $181k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $185k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $186k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $177k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $175k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunshine Foundation | $112,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Ranch Hope Inc | $107,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gilda's Club South Jersey Inc | $51,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Contact Cape Atlantic | $41,900 | 8 | 7% |
| Cape Atlantic Citizens Altering Stray Cats | $40,442 | 8 | 5% |
| Nj Run for the Fallen Inc | $39,000 | 9 | 19% |
| Foundation for Sustainable Veteran Housing a Nj Nonprofit Corporation | $33,000 | 2 | 67% |
| Sunshine Foundation | $31,832 | 3 | n/a |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cape Volunteers in Medicine Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Foster Karney Trust Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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: Oceanfirst Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Sykora Family Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Foster Karney Trust Foundation
- How much does Foster Karney Trust Foundation give?
- Foster Karney Trust Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $241,779 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Foster Karney Trust Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Membership Benefit (15%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Foster Karney Trust Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sunshine Foundation ($113k), Ranch Hope Inc ($107k), Gilda's Club South Jersey Inc ($51k).
- Does Foster Karney Trust Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Foster Karney Trust 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 Foster Karney Trust Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oceanfirst Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, The Sykora Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Foster Karney Trust Foundation based?
- Foster Karney Trust Foundation is based in NJ.
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