New York · Private foundation
George C Karlson 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.
- $126k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations George C Karlson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 15 | $126k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $123k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $109k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $84k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $110k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $133k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $125k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $71k | 20% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $100,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Rescue Mission | $77,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Transition House | $62,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Women's Fund of Santa Barbara | $31,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Hun School of Princeton | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Our Rescue | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Founda Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $110,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $100,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Rescue Mission | $77,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Transition House | $62,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Women's Fund of Santa Barbara | $31,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Hun School of Princeton | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Our Rescue | $22,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Founda Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Carpinteria Children's Project | $12,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Cecilia Fund | $10,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Ceces Hope Center | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dignitymoves | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montecito Trails Foundation | $4,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara County Trails Council | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($367k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George C Karlson Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Women's Fund of Santa Barbara · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The M and M Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · The Crawford Idema Family Foundation Inc · La Centra-Sumerlin Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · James S Bower Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation
How this is measured
About George C Karlson Foundation
- How much does George C Karlson Foundation give?
- George C Karlson Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $125,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does George C Karlson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Youth Development (20%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are George C Karlson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Semper Fi & America's Fund ($110k), Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($100k), Santa Barbara Rescue Mission ($78k).
- Does George C Karlson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George C Karlson 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 George C Karlson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Women's Fund of Santa Barbara.
- Where is George C Karlson Foundation based?
- George C Karlson Foundation is based in NY.
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