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Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma 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.

$114k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
55%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$19,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$114k73%
FY202411$120k55%
FY202310$50k30%
FY202213$50k31%
FY202115$153k20%
FY202017$146kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$299kHealth$115kInternational$101kYouth Development$49kHuman Services$29kArts & Culture$15kHousing & Shelter$14kEducation$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CA
VA
TN
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($361k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRiding to the Top: $52,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHumane Society of St Thomas: $42,805 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFamily Resource Center Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPeaceful Ridge Rescue Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPets With Wings Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetSolid Rock Community School Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRvr Horse Rescue Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetJungle Friends Primate Sanctuary: $9,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTouch of Grey Rescue Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSave Giraffes Now: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Animal Rescue League: $7,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetOperation Paws for Homes Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMy Brothers Workshop Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJustin Bartlett Animal Resuce Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Cattle Dog Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOwl's Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPicolinis Animal Rescue Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPlenty of Pitbulls: $2,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMcCarthys Wildlife Sanctuary Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Leslie L Alexander Foundation IncFL15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation

How much does Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation give?
Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $114,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (47%), Health (18%), International (16%).
Who are Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Riding to the Top ($52k), Humane Society of St Thomas ($43k), Family Resource Center Inc ($17k).
Does Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma 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 Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Network for Good.
Where is Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation based?
Good Karma I Foundation Wendy a Hester Good Karma Foundation is based in FL.

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 45 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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