Washington · Private foundation
Karen's Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $120k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,360
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Karen's Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $115k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $81k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $100k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $79k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $103k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $59k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $44k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $34k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $242,985 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple de Hirsch Sinai | $142,150 | 7 | n/a |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $23,050 | 4 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Schultz Family Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Westside Baby | $9,333 | 2 | 0% |
| Everstrong Prevention | $7,133 | 3 | 0% |
| Treehouse | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Westside School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $242,985 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple de Hirsch Sinai | $142,150 | 7 | n/a |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $23,050 | 4 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Schultz Family Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Westside Baby | $9,333 | 2 | 0% |
| Everstrong Prevention | $7,133 | 3 | 0% |
| Treehouse | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Westside School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Centers Association of North America | $3,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Youthcare | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Rivers Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Animal Defense League of Texas | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Children and Youth Justice Center | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hebrew Free Loan Association of Washington State | $1,800 | 1 | 1% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wmb Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Living Desert The | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| LifeWire | $834 | 1 | 0% |
| Maris Place | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of King County | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Charity Global Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karen's Family Foundation 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: Seattle Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · United Way of King County · Tillie & Alfred Shemanski Testamentary Trust · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Medina Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Gift Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Karen's Family Foundation
- How much does Karen's Family Foundation give?
- Karen's Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $120,110 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Karen's Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Religion (31%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Karen's Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service ($243k), Temple de Hirsch Sinai ($142k), Folds of Honor Foundation ($23k).
- Does Karen's Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karen's Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Karen's Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, United Way of King County.
- Where is Karen's Family Foundation based?
- Karen's Family Foundation is based in WA.
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