· 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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA | $25,400 |
| KEHILLAT ISRAEL | $22,500 |
| THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $20,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL FOOD | $12,000 |
| VENICE ARTS | $11,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNATTI FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THE JEWISH GRAD ORGANIZATION | $5,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $2,500 |
| AT THE WELL PROJECT | $2,500 |
| MANIFESTWORKS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| THE GIVING BANK FUND | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Kara Love Project’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 67% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- VAVENICE ARTS5× · 2020–2024 · $52k · revenue +87%
- PAPROJECT ANGEL FOOD3× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +106%
- TATHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- RARADHA AND GOVINDAS LLCone grant, 2023 · $17k
- WAWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +28%
- TATHE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -71%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manifestworks and the most unlike its peers is Unatti Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 35 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 VENICE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The Village School ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Unatti Foundation ↗
- Who funds MANIFESTWORKS ↗
- Who funds THE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RAMANA'S GARDEN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds AT THE WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ICA LA ↗
- Who funds DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HANUMAN MAUI ↗
- Who funds HABITS OF WASTE ↗
- Who funds HELPUSADOPTORG INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
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 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
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 Kara Love Project 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Systems Inc — 92% of income from government
- The Village School — 5% 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.