California · Private foundation
Karney Guren 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.
- $385k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Karney Guren Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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 | 4 | $385k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $214k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $225k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $212k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $209k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $166k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $156k | 12% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $177k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles | $624,600 | 6 | 1% |
| Hillel at Ucla | $65,300 | 7 | 1% |
| Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research | $52,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Treepeople Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $26,000 | 7 | 0% |
| People for the American Way Foundation | $25,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles | $624,600 | 6 | 1% |
| Hillel at Ucla | $65,300 | 7 | 1% |
| Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research | $52,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Treepeople Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $26,000 | 7 | 0% |
| People for the American Way Foundation | $25,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way Inc | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Westside Food Bank | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fire Aid | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Violence Policy Center | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Bright Prospect | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Team Rubicon Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cadena Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Harvard-Westlake School | $3,500 | 7 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($730k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karney Guren Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Karney Guren Family Foundation
- How much does Karney Guren Family Foundation give?
- Karney Guren Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $385,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Karney Guren Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Philanthropy (11%), Health (11%).
- Who are Karney Guren Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles ($625k), Hillel at Ucla ($65k), Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research ($53k).
- Does Karney Guren Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karney Guren 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 Guren Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Karney Guren Family Foundation based?
- Karney Guren Family Foundation is based in CA.
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