Illinois · Private foundation
Karmin Family Charitable Trust
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.
- $148k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 36
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $426k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Karmin Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $144k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $84k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $119k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $46k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $45k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $51k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $71k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $58k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $90,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $75,300 | 9 | 0% |
| Am Shalom | $42,150 | 9 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ravinia Festival Association | $39,000 | 7 | 0% |
| C5 Youth Foundation of Southern California Inc | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Maot Chitim of Greater Chicago Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Council for Jewish Elderly | $10,450 | 5 | 0% |
| Secure Community Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $8,300 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karmin Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jarvis Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Sacks Family Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · David B Rothschild Mem Foundation · Jane Woldenberg Family Foundation · Joseph Perlman Family Foundation · Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd · Rochman Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Karmin Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Karmin Family Charitable Trust give?
- Karmin Family Charitable Trust reported 32 grants totaling $148,220 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Karmin Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Religion (24%), Arts & Culture (21%).
- Who are Karmin Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($91k), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($75k), Am Shalom ($42k).
- Does Karmin Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karmin Family Charitable Trust 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 Karmin Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Jarvis Foundation, Circle of Service Foundation.
- Where is Karmin Family Charitable Trust based?
- Karmin Family Charitable Trust is based in IL.
Play a game based on Karmin Family’s filings →