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Karney Flaster Family 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.

$808k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2025
37
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
26 to 37
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$9.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Karney Flaster Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’24
InternationalArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementScience & TechOther
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 arriving32$808k31%
FY202437$519k38%
FY202130$348k23%
FY202026$258k23%
FY201928$194k54%
FY201827$207k33%
FY201726$257kn/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.

Arts & Culture$436kHuman Services$310kHealth$268kEducation$201kCivil Rights$141kInternational$68kPublic Benefit$57kScience & Tech$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
RI
CA
DC
AL
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Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest$510,00060%
Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse$193,66760%
Congregation Beth Israel$167,5646n/a
Uc San Diego Foundation$112,55070%
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego$99,92041%
San Diego Museum of Art$87,55021%
Jewish Family Service of San Diego$68,00010%
Old Globe Theatre$60,50050%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$50,0001n/a
The Salvation Army$50,0001n/a
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All grantees of Karney Flaster Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest$510,00060%
Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse$193,66760%
Congregation Beth Israel$167,5646n/a
Uc San Diego Foundation$112,55070%
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego$99,92041%
San Diego Museum of Art$87,55021%
Jewish Family Service of San Diego$68,00010%
Old Globe Theatre$60,50050%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$50,0001n/a
The Salvation Army$50,0001n/a
Feeding San Diego$45,42240%
La Jolla Community Foundation$45,00026%
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies$43,47850%
Cortland College Foundation Inc$43,00050%
Washington Institute for Near East Policy$32,50020%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$27,00030%
The Center for Public Integrity$20,29550%
San Diego Coastkeeper$15,50070%
La Jolla Country Day School$12,50010%
Voice of San Diego$12,00040%
Americans United for Separation of Church and State$10,0001n/a
The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association$10,00020%
Hillel at Ucla$8,80050%
Hebrew Free Loan of San Diego$8,61321%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$6,70030%
National Geographic Society$6,50040%
Impact Cubed$6,10021%
National Conflict Resolution Center$6,03760%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$6,00030%
Lawrence Family Jewish Community Centers of San Diego County$5,77510%
Girls on the Run of San Diego$5,50031%
Meals-On-Wheels Greater San Diego Inc$5,00010%
Oceanside Museum of Art$5,00010%
Investigative Newsource$5,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,00010%
San Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation$5,00011%
Kitchens for Good$5,00010%
Israel Emergency Alliance$3,87720%
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc$3,62710%
Plan International USA Inc$3,22450%
Foundation of La Jolla High School Inc$3,00030%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$2,50020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,50010%
Library Association of la Jolla$2,00040%
Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties$1,50010%
National Park Foundation$1,50010%
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation$1,20010%
Hillel of San Diego$1,01520%
Voices for Children$1,00010%
National Public Radio Inc$1,00010%
Sundance Institute$50010%
Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($755k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karney Flaster Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest: $510,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTheater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse: $193,667 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $112,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art San Diego: $99,920 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSan Diego Museum of Art: $87,550 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJewish Family Service of San Diego: $68,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOld Globe Theatre: $60,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding San Diego: $45,422 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLa Jolla Community Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $43,478 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCortland College Foundation Inc: $43,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWashington Institute for Near East Policy: $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Public Integrity: $20,295 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSan Diego Coastkeeper: $15,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLa Jolla Country Day School: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoice of San Diego: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHillel at Ucla: $8,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHebrew Free Loan of San Diego: $8,613 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $6,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetImpact Cubed: $6,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNational Conflict Resolution Center: $6,037 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence Family Jewish Community Centers of San Diego County: $5,775 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run of San Diego: $5,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMeals-On-Wheels Greater San Diego Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOceanside Museum of Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInvestigative Newsource: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Fire-Rescue Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKitchens for Good: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $3,877 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc: $3,627 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlan International USA Inc: $3,224 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of La Jolla High School Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLibrary Association of la Jolla: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHazelden Betty Ford Foundation: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillel of San Diego: $1,015 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVoices for Children: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSundance Institute: $500 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 47.

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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.

The San Diego FoundationCA35.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Arthur & Barbara Bloom Foundation · Allison and Robert Price Family Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Intuit 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.

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About Karney Flaster Family Foundation

How much does Karney Flaster Family Foundation give?
Karney Flaster Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $808,108 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Karney Flaster Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Human Services (17%), Health (15%).
Who are Karney Flaster Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest ($510k), Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse ($194k), Congregation Beth Israel ($168k).
Does Karney Flaster Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Karney Flaster Family 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 Karney Flaster Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, The Parker Foundation.
Where is Karney Flaster Family Foundation based?
Karney Flaster Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 88 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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