Michigan · Private foundation
Karp Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $877k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $630,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Karp Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 20 | $877k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $749k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $886k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $751k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $704k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $757k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $724k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $661k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $2,003,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $1,420,734 | 8 | 4% |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | $307,400 | 8 | 2% |
| Beaumont Health Foundation | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Insight Through Education Inc | $67,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Oakland University | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yeshivath Beth Yehudah | $45,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Jarc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $38,833 | 1 | n/a |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $2,003,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Holocaust Memorial Center Inc | $1,420,734 | 8 | 4% |
| Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network | $307,400 | 8 | 2% |
| Beaumont Health Foundation | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Insight Through Education Inc | $67,500 | 6 | 3% |
| Oakland University | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yeshivath Beth Yehudah | $45,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Jarc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $38,833 | 1 | n/a |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Adat Shalom Synagogue | $29,800 | 8 | n/a |
| The Detroit Jewish News Foundation Inc | $22,400 | 5 | 1% |
| Friendship Circle | $21,900 | 7 | n/a |
| Child Safe Michigan | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cabaret 313 Inc | $14,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 22% |
| American Friends of Yahad - in Unum Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Farber Hebrew Day School-Yeshival Akiva | $6,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit | $5,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Jsl Foundation | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karp 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: The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · Grosfeld Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Gregg and Harriet Orley Family Foundation · Hermelin Family Support Foundation · Shari & Alon Friendship Foundation Inc · The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Bruce H and Rosalie N Rosen Family Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust · Pappas Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Karp Family Foundation
- How much does Karp Family Foundation give?
- Karp Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $876,733 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Karp Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Arts & Culture (26%), Religion (21%).
- Who are Karp Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Regents of the University of Michigan ($2.0M), Holocaust Memorial Center Inc ($1.4M), Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network ($307k).
- Does Karp Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karp Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Karp Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation, Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation, Grosfeld Foundation.
- Where is Karp Family Foundation based?
- Karp Family Foundation is based in MI.
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