· Private foundation
Karuna Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Center for Victims of Torture | $40,000 |
| Amnesty International USA | $20,000 |
| Centurion Ministries | $14,000 |
| Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education | $14,000 |
| ACLU Foundation of Arizona | $13,000 |
| Ashoka Innovators for the Public | $12,000 |
| Sedona Recycles | $12,000 |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $10,000 |
| Vitamin Angels | $6,000 |
| ABA Fund for Justice and Education | $5,000 |
| Keep Sedona Beautiful | $2,000 |
| Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research | $2,000 |
| ACLPI | $2,000 |
| Friends of the Forest Inc | $1,000 |
| Solar United Neighbors | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE6× · 2020–2025 · $157k · revenue +23%
CENTURION MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +45%- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA6× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +21%
- ABAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educationone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…
AriSEIAs mission is to develop and support policies that create opportunities to advance Arizonas economy through solar energy and storage. AriSEIA advocates for sustainable job creation in deployment of solar and complementary…
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
Preserve, protect and promote a fair and effective justice system, including the right to trial by jury. protect the health and safety of arizona families. educate the public about consumer and constitutional issues. support the ethical…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
Al otro lado (aol) provides innovative cross-border legal services to refugees, deportees, and other migrantsin tijuana, mexico and throughout throughout the u.s., with a focus on southern california. aol's mission is to uplift immigrant…
Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.
The florence project provides and coordinates legal services and related social services to indigent men, women, and unaccompanied children detained in arizona for immigration removal proceedings.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education and the most unlike its peers is Sedona Recycles Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds CENTURION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SEDONA RECYCLES INC ↗
- Who funds VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP SEDONA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Manzanita Outreach ↗
- Who funds SEDONA PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Karuna Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.