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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 FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$388kPhilanthropy$150kHuman Services$98kInternational$91kEmployment$81kFood & Nutrition$75kAnimals$68kYouth Development$34kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $111k
$3,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greater Yellowstone Coalition Inc$40,000
Individual grant recipient$16,000
Growing Gardens of Boulder County Inc$15,000
Defenders of Wildlife$10,000
Middle Way House$10,000
Wildlife Conservation Network$10,000
Grand Canyon Trust$10,000
World Monuments Fund Rockefeller Center$5,000
Sun Valley Youth Center$5,000
Monroe County United Ministries$4,000
Canopy Bloomington Inc$3,000
Colorado Humanities$3,000
Bookgive Inc$2,000
Habitat for Humanity International$2,000
High Country News$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MIDDLE WAY HOUSE FOR PREVENTION SPECIALIST: $25k → 18%MIDDLE WAY HOUSE FOR PREVENTION SPECIALIST: $20k → 18%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $10k → 12%Sun Valley Youth Center: $10k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $7k → 12%Sun Valley Youth Center: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
IN
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
AZ
AR
NC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$883k · 19 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$883k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+25%

Still filing today

79%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GY
    GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $314k · revenue +45%
  • BF
    BICYCLES FOR HUMANITY - COLORADO
    6× · 2017–2022 · $78k · revenue +43%
  • GG
    GROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • FC
    FARM CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TW
    TREES WATER AND PEOPLE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • EW
    Engineers Without Borders GT
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
2
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
3
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
4
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
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Wildlands Restoration Volunteers

Building diverse communities that care for the land.

Environment
6
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment
9
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
10
Wilderness Workshop

Wilderness workshop's mission is to protect the wilderness, water, and wildlife of western colorado's public land.

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Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment
12
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts

To unite, elevate and empower colorado's conservation community to protect the lands and waters that define our state.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado; the most unlike its peers is Canopy Bloomington. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $313,500 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITIONGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $74,000 · EnvironmentGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY+10 more: $33,000 · Environment+10 moreCENTERSTONE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH BLGTN: $90,000 · OtherCENTERSTONE BEHAVIORA…Individual grant recipient: $31,000 · OtherIndividual grant reci…FARM CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $17,000 · OtherWORLD MONUMENTS FUND …LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC: $8,300 · Other+13 more: $27,000 · Other+13 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $150,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVEST…MIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesMIDDLE WAY HO…SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YO…BICYCLES FOR HUMANITY - COLORADO: $78,200 · InternationalBICYCLES …AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICARE…+1 more: $2,000 · InternationalWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $34,500 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $22,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $31,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$420,500Other$209,800Community Improvement$150,000Human Services$127,000International$90,200Animals$57,500Recreation & Sports$32,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $313,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC: $95,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBICYCLES FOR HUMANITY - COLORADO: $78,200 over 6y, 18% of budgetGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $74,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $34,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE: $31,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC: $8,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLEN CANYON INSTITUTE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO HUMANITIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDenver Inner City Parish Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCanopy Bloomington: $3,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBookGive Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN WILD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Storytellers Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYFLY PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS RIVER WATERSHED COLLABORATIVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLATTE RIVER WHOOPING CRANE MAINTENANCE TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…PatagoniaorgNational Forest Found…Resources Legacy FundGates Family Foundati…Rose Community Founda…Shell USA Company Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…
The Denver FoundationCO21.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Karis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Karis Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Karis Foundation Inc 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.

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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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