Massachusetts · Private foundation
Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees
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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 73
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $918k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $759k 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 | 29 | $2.0M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 73 | $3.5M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $3.9M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $1.5M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Youth Sanctuary Inc | $3,363,830 | 5 | 76% |
| Facing History & Ourselves Inc | $2,015,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $2,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lahey Clinic Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Theatre Workshop of Nantucket Inc | $205,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Belmont Hill School Inc | $162,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Perkins School for the Blind | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · The Hartman Family Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Clara Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees with peer funders
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About Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees
- How much does Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees give?
- Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees reported 31 grants totaling $2,012,884 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 73 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (25%), Health (24%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Boston Youth Sanctuary Inc ($3.4M), Facing History & Ourselves Inc ($2.0M), Children's Hospital Corporation ($2.0M).
- Does Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees 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 Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees based?
- Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees is based in MA.
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