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Karnell Foundation Inc

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.

$518k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$460kHousing & Shelter$150kHealth$142kPhilanthropy$134kInternational$102kFood & Nutrition$80kEducation$67kHuman Services$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $267k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMAS MOORE SOCIETY$100,500
ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$66,666
ST VINCENT DEPAUL$50,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL$38,385
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$30,000
MISSION OF MERCY$29,548
THE JEWISH FEDERATION$25,750
CTEEN OF THE VALLEY$25,000
COELHO RANCH FOUNDATION$25,000
GLOBAL OUTREACH$10,998
PHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$10,000
LIFE CHOICES WOMENS CLINIC$10,000
AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRAC$10,000
ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISSION OF MERCY: $30k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%MISSION OF MERCY: $10k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%MISSION OF MERCY: $10k → 9%MISSION OF MERCY: $10k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 12%MISSION OF MERCY: $10k → 9%MISSION OF MERCY: $10k → 9%MISSION OF MERCY: $10k → 9%MISSION OF MERCY: $5k → 9%CHRYSALIS SHELTER: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
IL
WI
NY
PA
CA
CO
MO
DE
AZ
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 33 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
25

Total granted

$1.4M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+25%

Still filing today

36%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • TM
    THOMAS MORE SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $118k · revenue +29%
  • MO
    MISSION OF MERCY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +53%
  • GO
    GLOBAL OUTREACH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • MF
    Morse Family Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $32k · revenue +25%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR JEWISH PHILANDTHROPY
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +14%
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.

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Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
4
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating a cure for each and every multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies,…

Health
5
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
6
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…

Health
7
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
8
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
11
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
12
Saint John's Cancer Institute

To support research and development of, and education in, the basic and clinical sciences for the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A New Leaf; the most unlike its peers is Morse Family 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

30 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. 30 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL OF PHOENIX ARIZONA: $213,886 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL OF PHOENIX ARIZONAST VINCENT DEPAUL: $195,000 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAULDJMI-ARIZONA INC: $133,500 · OtherDJMI-ARIZONA INCGLOBAL OUTREACH INC: $72,998 · OtherGLOBAL OUTREACH INCTHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $70,250 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONST THOMAS THE APOSTLE ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH PHOENIX: $67,500 · OtherST THOMAS THE APOSTLE ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH PHOENIXFLAGSTAFF FAMILY CENTER: $52,625 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY PROJECT: $40,900 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PHOENIX: $40,000 · Other+30 more: $223,475 · Other+30 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $100,000 · InternationalJEWISH NA…THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY: $39,500 · InternationalTHE AMERI…+2 more: $2,250 · InternationalTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $117,500 · Crime & LegalRose Community Foundation: $66,666 · PhilanthropyMorse Family Foundation: $31,577 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $10,000 · PhilanthropyDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,050 · PhilanthropyMISSION OF MERCY INC: $94,548 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesLIFE CHOICES WOMEN'S CLINIC: $36,000 · HealthPhoenix Children's Hospital: $15,000 · HealthTHIRD WAY CENTER INC: $7,500 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 · Health+3 more: $1,500 · HealthCOELHO RANCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,160,134International$141,750Crime & Legal$117,500Philanthropy$115,293Human Services$113,548Health$67,500Recreation & Sports$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $117,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC: $94,548 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGLOBAL OUTREACH INC: $72,998 over 9y, 15% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY: $39,500 over 8y, 15% of budgetLIFE CHOICES WOMEN'S CLINIC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMorse Family Foundation: $31,577 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD WAY CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $2,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMLCC CHARITIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFRANCISCAN FOUNDATION FOR THE HOLY LAND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA NEW LEAF: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION OF MERCY INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN ISLAMIC FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY ↗
  • Who funds LIFE CHOICES WOMEN'S CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Morse Family Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds COELHO RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD WAY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Sunshine Rescue Mission ↗
  • Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Catholic Community Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …
Arizona Community FoundationAZ18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation for the Diocese of Phoenix · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Karnell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karnell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 64 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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