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Massachusetts · Public charity

Karma for Cara Inc

To promote and teach volunteerism and community leadership to youth and to assist luekemia and cancer patients to increase their hope, quality of life, and ability to get healthy.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$23k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$23,020
Largest grant, FY2024
$23,020
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
Total assets, FY2024
$489k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Karma for Cara Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23
HealthHuman Services
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
FY2024still arriving1$23k100%
FY20232$78k0%
FY20221$57k0%
FY20211$21k0%
FY20194$141k25%
FY20185$100k40%
FY20173$96kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$344kHealth$70kHuman Services$60kArts & Culture$10kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Living Classrooms Foundation$343,62271%
Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc$100,00040%
Kennedy Krieger Foundation Inc$22,50040%
The Johns Hopkins Hospital$10,00020%
From the Top Inc$10,00020%
Hopewell Cancer Support$5,00011%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.

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How do I get to Karma for Cara Inc?

Find your warmest path to Karma for Cara Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Karma for Cara Inc

How much does Karma for Cara Inc give?
Karma for Cara Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $23,020, out of $67,660 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Karma for Cara Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Health (14%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Karma for Cara Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Living Classrooms Foundation ($344k), Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc ($100k), Kennedy Krieger Foundation Inc ($23k).
Does Karma for Cara Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Karma for Cara Inc based?
Karma for Cara Inc is based in MA.

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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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