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Karma 4 Change 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.

$24k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$278k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Karma 4 Change Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$24k25%
FY20244$18k0%
FY20238$25k38%
FY20227$19k14%
FY20217$12k57%
FY20208$15k63%
FY20185$13k60%
FY20179$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$47kHealth$18kCommunity Improvement$16kAnimals$15kYouth Development$14kRecreation & Sports$13kInternational$10kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karma 4 Change Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetImpact Grants Chicago: $16,400 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetA Better Chicago: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget261 Fearless Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHinsdale Humane Society: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSterling Africa Foundation Inc: $7,305 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $7,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSarara Institute: $6,885 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUpstate Forever: $6,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTusk USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConservation International Foundation: $3,275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrave Like Gabe Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Cancer Research Fund: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $130 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlma College: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLewis University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Science in the Public Interest: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAfs-Usa Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA13.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Karma 4 Change Foundation

How much does Karma 4 Change Foundation give?
Karma 4 Change Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $24,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Karma 4 Change Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Health (12%), Community Improvement (12%).
Who are Karma 4 Change Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Conservancy of Southwest Florida ($30k), Impact Grants Chicago ($16k), A Better Chicago ($14k).
Does Karma 4 Change Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Karma 4 Change Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Karma 4 Change Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Karma 4 Change Foundation based?
Karma 4 Change Foundation is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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