California · Private foundation
Kara Love Project
The KARA LOVE PROJECT aims to improve the psychological health of individuals by providing quality community programming, focusing on education and psychologically transformational workshops, restorative retreats, and therapeutic sessions which involve yoga or other healing modalities and which nurture a sense of community and human…
- $155k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 84%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 84% of the organizations Kara Love Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $125k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $141k | 84% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $39k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venice Arts | $52,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Project Angel Food | $47,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation of Pacific Palisades | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Archer School for Girls Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Gentle Barn Foundation | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Village School | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Unatti Foundation | $11,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Manifestworks | $10,680 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venice Arts | $52,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Project Angel Food | $47,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation of Pacific Palisades | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Archer School for Girls Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Gentle Barn Foundation | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Village School | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Unatti Foundation | $11,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Manifestworks | $10,680 | 2 | 1% |
| The Accountability Board Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Insightla Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Ramana's Garden | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Agape International Spiritual Center of Truth Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ica La | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| At the Well Project Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hanuman Maui | $2,008 | 2 | 0% |
| Habits of Waste | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Helpusadoptorg Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Concern Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad of Brentwood Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Insight Meditation Society Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Liberty Sanctuary | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Systems Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Skirball Cultural Center | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kara Love Project 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: The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Kara Love Project
- How much does Kara Love Project give?
- Kara Love Project reported 23 grants totaling $155,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Kara Love Project fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Religion (17%), Education (13%).
- Who are Kara Love Project's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Venice Arts ($52k), Project Angel Food ($48k), Kehillat Israel Reconstructionist Congregation of Pacific Palisades ($35k).
- Does Kara Love Project fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kara Love Project accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kara Love Project?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Annenberg Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation.
- Where is Kara Love Project based?
- Kara Love Project is based in CA.
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