California · Private foundation
Karno 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.
- $47k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $98k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Karno Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | $47k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $60k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $40k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $152k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $38k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen S Wise Temple | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Gitel Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Wellness Cancer Support Fund | $5,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Willows Community School | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Viewpoint Educational Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Windward School | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($256k), not named here.
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: California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Karno Foundation
- How much does Karno Foundation give?
- Karno Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $46,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Karno Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Crime & Legal (43%), Health (3%).
- Who are Karno Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Stephen S Wise Temple ($50k), Gitel Foundation ($10k), Wellness Cancer Support Fund ($5k).
- Does Karno Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karno 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 Karno Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Karno Foundation based?
- Karno Foundation is based in CA.
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