· Private foundation
Karlgaard Family 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION | $1,455,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $340,000 |
| INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| VIROQUA AREA FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| RICE LAKE AREA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| EDUCATE FAIRFAX | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN BARRON COUNTY CAMPUS | $25,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE | $20,000 |
| MCINTOSH MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS NATIONS CAPITAL | $10,000 |
| CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER | $1,030 |
| PARKINSON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +44% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $7.4M · revenue +84%- TGThe George Washington University7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +23%
- IHINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
Funded once
- HWHONEY W NASHMAN CENTER FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICEone grant, 2019 · $10k
- WCWESTBY COON PRAIRIE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- GSGIRL SCOUTSone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…
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Education and Research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Esophageal Cancer Action Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIROQUA AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE FAIRFAX ↗
- Who funds RICE LAKE AREA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ESOPHAGEAL CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DRIVE A SENIOR AUSTIN TEXAS ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Karlgaard Family 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.
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.