· Public charity
Karis Inc
Kindness And Relief In Society.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LAMB CENTER | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL UNION MISSION | $25,000 |
| MINISTRY OF JESUS | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP ASELSI | $16,000 |
| HERITAGE KIDS | $7,500 |
| HIDDEN TREASURES | $6,000 |
| FREEDOM IN CREATION | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Karis Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 28%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 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
Backed again, and grew
- CUCENTRAL UNION MISSION4× · 2019–2025 · $131k · revenue +20%
- TLTHE LAMB CENTER2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +76%
- CHCAPITOL HILL CRISIS PREGNANCY CTR2× · 2017–2018 · $71k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- HKHERITAGE KIDS LTDone grant, 2023 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6k
- CACHRISTIAN AID MISSIONone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
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.
Christ Life Ministries' vision is transforming lives for Christ through the preaching of the gospel and discipleship.
Religious
Providing shelter for the homeless
Evangelistic preaching the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Missionary and support of missionaries at home and abroad. Praying and counseling with Gods people both at home and in the field. Benevolence to needy.
Religious
Ministry
Conducts daily devotional services and sponsors religious projects in developing countries.
To spread the good news of jesus christ to everyone who will hear. to provide ministry to the whole man, spirit, soul, & body. to encourage
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Karis Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karis Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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