California · Private foundation
Karsten Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $203k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Karsten Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $188k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $161k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $156k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $135k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $117k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $87k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $91k | 83% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $97k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $135,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Environmental Integrity Project | $82,000 | 6 | 0% |
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rock the Vote | $56,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Public Wise Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hias Inc | $41,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Equality Now Inc | $24,340 | 5 | 0% |
| Voter Participation Project Education Fund Inc | $24,000 | 3 | n/a |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $20,100 | 3 | 0% |
| T'Ruah | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($206k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karsten 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: Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Hopewell Fund · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
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About Karsten Family Foundation
- How much does Karsten Family Foundation give?
- Karsten Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $202,845 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Karsten Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (22%), Civil Rights (14%), Education (13%).
- Who are Karsten Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc ($135k), Environmental Integrity Project ($82k), J Street Education Fund Inc ($65k).
- Does Karsten Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Karsten Family 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 Karsten Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Karsten Family Foundation based?
- Karsten Family Foundation is based in CA.
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