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Karisma Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 826LA | $50,000 |
| YOUTH EMERGING STRONGER | $50,000 |
| THE PAINTED TURTLE | $50,000 |
| HOPE THE MISSION | $50,000 |
| PEACE4KIDS | $50,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $50,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $25,000 |
| REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $25,000 |
| CITIZENS UNITED FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CABINET | $10,000 |
| SCGA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL FOOD | $5,000 |
| EDUCATION AND HOPE | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $614k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- P4PEACE 4 KIDS9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +290%
- 8826LA9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +17%
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND7× · 2019–2025 · $350k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR BLINDone grant, 2017 · $50k
- STSINAI TEMPLEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…
To ensure student success by building authentic partnerships between families, educators, and system leaders, and through parent-led advocacy.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).
We believe childhood is extraordinary. crestview culitivates academic excellence by nurturing individual potential, empowering students to learn joyfully and discover their unique talents within our caring community that fosters belonging.…
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…
The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oaks Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PEACE 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds 826LA ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds Imagine Los Angeles Inc ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Youth Network ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds Scholar Leaders International ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION AND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CLARIS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PLAYHOUSE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN DOUGLAS FRENCH ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Citizens United Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds THE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Green Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Karisma Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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