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Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$265k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$124,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$261k50%
FY202414$387k43%
FY202311$147k82%
FY20226$77k83%
FY20218$390k63%
FY202010$188k60%
FY20198$59k38%
FY20187$50k29%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$675kInternational$425kHealth$211kArts & Culture$114kCrime & Legal$102kHuman Services$86kReligion$59kPhilanthropy$33kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc$200,00011%
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School$150,00020%
American Israel Education Foundation Inc$125,00020%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$100,00020%
Worldwide Friends Foundation$100,0001n/a
The Cambridge School of Weston Inc$79,50030%
The Society of the Four Arts Inc$75,00030%
Roca Inc$69,96040%
The Phoenix Charter Academy Foundation Inc$50,00014%
Urban League of Eastern Masschusetts Inc$50,00013%
Trustees of Boston College$50,00010%
Mount Auburn Hospital$40,00020%
The Tikvah Fund$25,00010%
Noam Institute Inc$23,00029%
Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc$20,00010%
Dana-Farber Inc$15,00030%
Palm Beach Orthodox Synagogue Inc$13,3502n/a
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc$10,00010%
Lawyers Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness Inc$7,32511%
Trustees of Boston University$6,00020%
Miami City Ballet Inc$6,00020%
National Affordable Housing Management Association$5,2502n/a
Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc$5,00010%
The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc$2,50010%
Cambridge Health Alliance Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Food for Free Committee Inc$2,50010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$2,0001n/a
Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation$1,00010%
Cape Cod Children's Place Inc$1,0001n/a
Nantucket Historical Association$1,00010%
Wilshire Boulevard Temple$1,0001n/a
Tenacity Inc$50010%
Brotherhood of Hope Inc$3001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($504k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBuckingham Browne & Nichols School: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Israel Education Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cambridge School of Weston Inc: $79,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRoca Inc: $69,960 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Phoenix Charter Academy Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetUrban League of Eastern Masschusetts Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Auburn Hospital: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tikvah Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNoam Institute Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetRaymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLawyers Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness Inc: $7,325 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMiami City Ballet Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCambridge Health Alliance Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFood for Free Committee Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNantucket Historical Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTenacity Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc

How much does Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc give?
Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $265,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), International (24%), Health (12%).
Who are Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ($200k), Buckingham Browne & Nichols School ($150k), American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($125k).
Does Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Cambridge Community Foundation.
Where is Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc based?
Kargman Charitable & Educational Foundation Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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