· Private foundation
James Held and Kenn Karakul Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $17,500 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION | $16,700 |
| THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE | $11,000 |
| PALM BEACH ISLAND HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST | $6,550 |
| CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE | $5,000 |
| SAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND BALLET | $1,000 |
| VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICE | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +99% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION7× · 2018–2025 · $133k · revenue +234%
- TOTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +54%
- AIARAWAKA INC5× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +205%
Funded once
- PBPALM BEACH HOSPICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- HOHospice of Palm Beach County Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -15%
- HOHOSPICE OF PALM BEACHone grant, 2020 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To increase the permanent supply of housing affordable for very-low, low and moderate income residents in palm beach county.
These objectives are accomplished through educating our members and the community through meetings and programs and by maintaining and restoring the club's town beautification projects that have been gifted to the town over the years. the…
To educate, develop, advocate, and promote the visual and performing arts and cultural activities throughout Palm Beach County, Florida.
Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Palm Health Foundation invests in bold, community-led solutions that improve health and well-being in Palm Beach County. (Continued on Schedule O)Established in 2001 from the sale of Good Samaritan and St. Mary's hospitals, the Foundation…
The area agency on aging of palm beach/treasure coast is a private, non-profit, regional agency whose mission is to advocate, plan and promote the independence, dignity, health and well-being of seniors and their caregivers in a manner…
Together with our donors, we transform our region through bold and proactive philanthropy.
To ensure that everyone in Palm Beach County has access to the basics: A quality education, a place to live, financial stability, good medical care, and enough to eat.
Palm beach island hospice foundation was established exclusively to support the programs, services and activities which further comprehensive hospice care in palm beach county, florida through its fundraising efforts.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds ARAWAKA INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Hospitality Helping Hands ↗
- Who funds FORBES HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds Glades Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BALLET ↗
- Who funds MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds EDDIES HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization James Held and Kenn Karakul Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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