Indiana · Private foundation
Karis Foundation Inc
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.
- $142k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Karis Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Karis Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $142k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Karis Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 21 | $142k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $126k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $121k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $137k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $106k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $103k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $100k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $100k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Yellowstone Coalition | $313,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Middle Way House Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Bicycles for Humanity - Colorado | $78,200 | 6 | 18% |
| Growing Gardens of Boulder County | $74,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Wildlife Conservation Network Inc | $34,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Sun Valley Youth Center Inc | $32,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Colorado Fourteeners Initiative | $31,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Defenders of Wildlife | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| World Monuments Fund Inc | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Grand Canyon Trust Inc | $13,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karis Foundation Inc 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 Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Patagoniaorg · National Forest Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Karis Foundation Inc
- How much does Karis Foundation Inc give?
- Karis Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $142,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Karis Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (36%), Philanthropy (14%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Karis Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Yellowstone Coalition ($314k), Middle Way House Inc ($95k), Bicycles for Humanity - Colorado ($78k).
- Does Karis Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karis Foundation Inc 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 Karis Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Patagoniaorg.
- Where is Karis Foundation Inc based?
- Karis Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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