· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Sedona Public Library | $1,000 |
| Friends of the Forest Inc | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE6× · 2020–2025 · $157k · revenue +23%
- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA6× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +61%
CENTURION MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -73%
- ABAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educationone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -13%
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.
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 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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds CENTURION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- 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 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP SEDONA BEAUTIFUL 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Karuna Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karuna Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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