Illinois · Public charity
Karam Foundation
KARAM FOUNDATION is dedicated to help people help themselves. We seek to restore the dignity and quality of life for people affected by conflict by eliminating barriers to success through innovative education, entrepreneurial development, and community-driven aid.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $150k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $42,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Karam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 | 5 | $150k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $77k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $86k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $53k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $17k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper Airplanes Inc | $211,222 | 4 | 65% |
| Atassi Foundation | $69,500 | 1 | 98% |
| Reaching Across Borders Inc | $57,217 | 2 | 31% |
| Seeds Film LLC | $39,969 | 1 | n/a |
| Sye Initiative Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Finding Refuge | $26,694 | 3 | 16% |
| Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) | $8,265 | 1 | 0% |
| Inner-City Muslim Action Network | $8,265 | 1 | 0% |
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Karam Foundation
- How much does Karam Foundation give?
- Karam Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $149,886, out of $1,322,165 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Karam Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (47%), Education (19%), Philanthropy (15%).
- Who are Karam Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Paper Airplanes Inc ($211k), Atassi Foundation ($70k), Reaching Across Borders Inc ($57k).
- Does Karam Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Karam Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Karam Foundation based?
- Karam Foundation is based in IL.
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