· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| EDUCATE FAIRFAX | $30,000 |
| RICE LAKE AREA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $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 |
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 (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 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 +44% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
See Disclosure Above.
Education and Research
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 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 ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Karlgaard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karlgaard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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