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.

Karmin Family Charitable Trust

Karmin Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$51k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$191kReligion$174kArts & Culture$152kYouth Development$57kCivil Rights$44kHuman Services$39kHealth$29kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $38k
$10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$50k–250k1 grant · $51k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$426k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH UNITED FUND	$50,500
US HOLOCAUST MUSEUM	$30,000
SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK	$10,000
HIGHER GROUND	$10,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL	$10,000
AM SHALOM	$6,200
ISRAEL POLICY FORUM	$5,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES	$5,000
COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY	$3,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
MT SINAI CENTER	$2,000
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION	$1,000
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN	$1,000
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$612k · 50 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$612k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+4%

Still filing today

56%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +25%
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ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
6× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +78%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
7× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +50%

Funded once

C
CSLA
one grant, 2022 · $5k
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +96%
RA
REBECCA A COPELAND FUND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICEgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +276%

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.

04Its field

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.

University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health

The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture

Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights

Jaeb Center for Health Research Foundation Inc

Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.

Unclassified

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Buffalo Grove Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 100 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/56

Grantees still filing

39/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$325,371Philanthropy$165,750Arts & Culture$145,098Civil Rights$40,100Human Services$20,780Food & Nutrition$17,650Youth Development$17,000

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.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL27× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Karmin Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karmin Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home