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.

Where is Karp Family Foundation based?

Karp Family Foundation is based in MI.

Karp Family Foundation

Karp Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Karp Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$877k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$630k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$2.5MArts & Culture$1.7MReligion$1.3MPhilanthropy$349kEducation$245kInternational$182kFood & Nutrition$111kHuman Services$27kOther$0

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $51k
$10k–50k5 grants · $124k
$50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$250k+1 grant · $630k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Holocaust Memorial Center	$630,000
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network	$72,000
Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit	$40,000
FIDF	$38,833
Insight Through Education	$20,000
American Friends of Magen David Adom	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
Friendship Circle	$7,200
Jewish Community Center	$5,000
Detroit Symphony Orchestra	$5,000
JARC	$5,000
Child Safe Michigan	$5,000
Jewish Senior Life - PHSF	$5,000
Adat Shalom Synagogue	$3,600
Congregation Shaarey Zedek	$3,600

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.0M · 27 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.0M

$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

Still filing today

37%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationReligionHealthOther

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

HM
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +64%
JH
JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK
8× · 2018–2025 · $307k · revenue +9%
IT
INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC
6× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +125%

Funded once

TI
THE INTERNATIONAL RAOUL WALLENBERG FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -74%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $4k

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.

The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education

University of Judaism Foundation

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Jfa Non-Profit Housing Corporation

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

Housing & Shelter

Jewish Home and Aging Services

We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.

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Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor

The federation provides and inspires philanthropic leadership and community-building to nurture a strong, engaged, connected, vibrant, and enduring jewish community locally, in israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy

Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Jewish Home Services Inc

Jewish senior life of metropolitan detroit is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults of the metropolitan detroit jewish community through the provision of personalized high quality programs and services that support…

Human Services

Flint Jewish Federation

To further the welfare of the jewish community

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of Madison Inc

To inspire, build, and sustain vibrant jewish life by fostering diverse opportunities to connect at every age and mobilizing our community in common purpose, in madison, israel, and around the world.

Religion

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

13/18

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,021,639Arts & Culture$1,554,634Religion$307,400Philanthropy$298,500Health$105,000International$63,833Human Services$56,800

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

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.

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 Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family FoundationMI24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home