Illinois · Private foundation
Karger Fund
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.
- $18k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $87k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Karger Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 5 | $18k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $8k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $14k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $27k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $21k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $21k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $27k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $21k | 41% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Institute for Near East Policy | $38,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Sga Youth & Family Services Nfp | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) | $6,200 | 3 | 0% |
| The Joffrey Ballet | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Francis W Parker School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum of Contemporary Art | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pads of Elgin Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Merit School of Music | $1,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicago's Green City Market Program | $1,750 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karger Fund 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 Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to Karger Fund?
Find your warmest path to Karger Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Karger Fund
- How much does Karger Fund give?
- Karger Fund reported 5 grants totaling $17,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Karger Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (33%), International (22%), Health (10%).
- Who are Karger Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Washington Institute for Near East Policy ($39k), Sga Youth & Family Services Nfp ($8k), The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ($6k).
- Does Karger Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karger Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Karger Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Karger Fund based?
- Karger Fund is based in IL.
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