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Howard & Jeanne Karr Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Howard & Jeanne Karr Charitable 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.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$722kCommunity Improvement$239kCivil Rights$205kArts & Culture$138kHuman Services$74kYouth Development$43kRecreation & Sports$40kReligion$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$41,870
Median grant
1
States reached
$600
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY$41,870
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 (FY17–21, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13k → 19%COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 19%COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6k → 19%COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6k → 19%COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 19%HOPE HOUSE VISITATION CENTER: $2k → 19%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $4k → 19%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $3k → 19%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 17 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
4

Total granted

$1.4M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+63%

Still filing today

47%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • YC
    YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $239k · revenue +428% · 28% of their budget
  • OW
    OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2022 · $210k · revenue +53%
  • BI
    BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART
    6× · 2017–2022 · $61k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • AJ
    American Junior Golf Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +63%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • CC
    Childrens Center for Science &
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Youngstown State University Foundation

The youngstown state university foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization that supports student scholarships, student development, and career opportunities

Education
2
Young Women's Christian Association Greater Pittsburgh

Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…

Human Services
3
American Youthworks

American youthworks (ayw) annually provides 400+ young adults with training and resources to build careers and strengthen their communities through education, paid career training, and national service. ayw programs prepare participants…

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4
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
5
Boys' & Girls' Club of Massillon Inc

To improve the quality of life for all youth and promote their active participation as responsible members of a diverse society. with serious concern for youth with special needs, the boys and girls' club of massillon helps youth recognize…

Youth Development
6
Yancey County Committee On Aging Inc

Provide services for elderly

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7
Youngstown Area Jewish Cemeteries Association

To provide funeral and cemetery services for synagogue cemeteries.

Membership Benefit
8
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
9
Youth Opportunity Center Foundation Inc

To provide financial support for the youth opportunity center, inc.

Human Services
10
Wyo Complex

To provide wyoming and the surrounding community aunique, state-of-the-art facility for competition, training, and special events, while emphasizing the importanceof physical and mental health and promoting an active lifestyle for our…

Recreation & Sports
11
Yamhill County Care Organization Inc

Working together to improve the quality of life and health of the yamhill community by coordinating effective care.

Health
12
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youngstown Fdn General; the most unlike its peers is Butler Institute of American Art. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YSU FOUNDATION: $354,000 · OtherYSU FOUNDATIONACLD LEARNING CENTER: $210,000 · OtherACLD LEARNING CENTERMAHONING VALLEY COLLEGE ACCESS: $54,000 · OtherMAHONING VALLEY COLLEGE ACCESSALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER: $41,870 · OtherSTAMBAUGH AUDITORIUM ASSOCIATION: $37,500 · OtherPROTESTANT FAMILY SERVICES: $35,000 · Other+7 more: $75,500 · Other+7 moreOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $210,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVER…ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $57,000 · EducationALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUN…YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC: $239,000 · Community ImprovementYOUNGSTOWN CITYSC…BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $61,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $39,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $36,500 · Human ServicesHospice of the Valley Inc: $7,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE VISITATION CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Junior Golf Foundation Inc: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsYOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL: $9,500 · Philanthropy
Other$807,870Education$267,000Community Improvement$239,000Arts & Culture$100,000Human Services$45,500Recreation & Sports$40,000Philanthropy$9,500

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 budgetYOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC: $239,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $210,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART: $61,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $57,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER: $41,870 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $39,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $36,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN: $19,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of the Valley Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE VISITATION CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds YOUNGSTOWN CITYSCAPE INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds American Junior Golf Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN ↗
  • Who funds YOUNGSTOWN FDN GENERAL ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of the Valley Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE VISITATION CENTER INC ↗

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.

Youngstown Fdn GeneralPremier Bank Foundati…Florence S Beecher FdnCommunity Foundation …John D Finnegan FdnSenator Maurice & Flo…Ruth Beecher H XI Cha…Fibushendricks Family…The John L Dunne & Je…Lamb Jane Charitable …Zita M and Joseph Diy…Youngstown Area Jewis…
Youngstown Fdn GeneralOH22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · Florence S Beecher Fdn · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · John D Finnegan Fdn · Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · The John L Dunne & Jenifer Lloyd Family Foundation · Lamb Jane Charitable Fdn · Zita M and Joseph Diyorio Foundation · Youngstown Area Jewish Federation

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 Howard & Jeanne Karr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard & Jeanne Karr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 23 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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