· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $50,000 |
| 826LA | $50,000 |
| YOUTH EMERGING STRONGER | $50,000 |
| THE PAINTED TURTLE | $50,000 |
| HOPE THE MISSION | $50,000 |
| PEACE4KIDS | $50,000 |
| REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $25,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 41 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.
- 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 Scholar Leaders International ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION AND HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CLARIS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Citizens United Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PLAYHOUSE VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN DOUGLAS FRENCH ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds THE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Karisma Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karisma Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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