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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 FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Youth Development$3.4MHealth$2.9MArts & Culture$2.4MPhilanthropy$1.3MEducation$441kHuman Services$130kHousing & Shelter$105kRecreation & Sports$75kCrime & Legal$40kOther$3.3M
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $198k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $490k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$918k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES$500,000
UNION COLLEGE$400,000
BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY$400,000
TEMPLE BETH AVODAH$160,000
OUR GENERATION SPEAKS$60,000
THE JOEY FUND$60,000
THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC$60,000
GETTING TO WE INC$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
BELMONT HILL SCHOOL$50,000
HOSPITALITY HOMES INC$33,334
CROSSROADS$25,000
MT AUBURN HOSPITAL$25,000
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$25,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GETTING TO WE INC: $50k → 17%GETTING TO WE INC: $9k → 17%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $6k → 7%FRESHMAN FRESH START: $6k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $20k → 16%FAMILY MOVEMENT INC: $5k → 16%NEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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WA
NY
MA
OH
MD
NC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 41 repeat orgs$870k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
54

Total granted

$12M
$752k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+1%

Still filing today

80%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +41%
  • LC
    LAHEY CLINIC INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue +7%
  • TW
    THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $205k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • FM
    FOUNDATION MASS EYE & EAR INC
    one grant, 2024 · $44k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
4
Northeastern University
Education
5
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
6
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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8
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
10
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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11
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is Boston Youth Sanctuary Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr13%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%33%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr13%22%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
10%
1,776/17,384

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
44/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC — $3,363,830 · Youth DevelopmentBOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC+2 more — $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNION COLLEGE — $1,665,499 · OtherUNION COLLEGENANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL — $350,000 · OtherNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITALTEMPLE BETH AVODAH — $275,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH AVODAHTHE JOEY FUND — $260,000 · OtherTHE JOEY FUNDUNITED WAY — $155,000 · Other+46 more — $769,900 · Other+46 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation — $2,000,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Co…LAHEY CLINIC INC — $300,000 · HealthLAHEY CLINIC INCBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $200,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS …BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $125,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $110,000 · Health+4 more — $115,000 · HealthFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $2,015,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OU…THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC — $205,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF…+14 more — $205,500 · Arts & Culture+14 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $1,164,634 · PhilanthropyCombined J…Boston Foundation Inc — $60,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $121,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC — $162,500 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $125,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationBIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INC — $25,000 · EducationNANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · Education+7 more — $58,216 · EducationGETTING TO WE — $59,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFRESHMAN FRESH START INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY MOVEMENT — $5,000 · Human ServicesNEW ENGLAND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $5,000 · Human Services
Youth Development$3,385,830Other$3,475,399Health$2,850,000Arts & Culture$2,425,500Philanthropy$1,345,634Education$440,716Human Services$130,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC — $3,363,830 over 5y, 76% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $2,015,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $1,164,634 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC INC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC — $205,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC — $162,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc — $100,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGETTING TO WE — $59,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET FILM FOUNDATION INC — $42,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST INC — $40,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPOONFULS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRUB STREET INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRESHMAN FRESH START INC — $11,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetiRise Above Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Nantucket Golf Club F…Ernst & Elfriede Fran…Eastern Bank Foundati…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Rockland Trust - Blue…The Hartman Family Fo…Cape Cod Five Cents S…The Ayco Charitable F…Clara Foundation Inc
Community Foundation for Nantucket IncMA38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 260%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Book Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
  • Lahey Clinic Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
  • Lesley University — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees?

Find your warmest path to Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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