· Public charity
Karuna Foundation
Making distributions to individuals and organizations that advocate for and/or support the wellbeing of animals, our natural environment and all global citizens, particularly by addressing humanitarian crises or deficiencies in nutrition or food systems.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $3,834,980 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $32,856,443 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,021,463 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $377k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vegan Hacktivists | $535,586 |
| Vegan Friendly USA | $465,500 |
| Food Solutions Action | $400,000 |
| Vegan FTA | $355,424 |
| Effect Partners FBO Vegan Strong | $340,457 |
| Waking Justice | $200,000 |
| Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue | $150,000 |
| Asha's Farm Sanctuary | $136,823 |
| Million Dollar Vegan | $115,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Afro-Vegan Society | $87,500 |
| Bluegrass Veg | $85,000 |
| LA Farm Animal Save | $77,500 |
| Pro-Animal Future | $76,500 |
| Peace 4 Animals | $65,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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
Grants abroad, by region — $27M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $25M to organizations and $1.9M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Advocate for the wellbeing of animals.
Stated purpose: Advocate for the wellbeing of animals.
Stated purpose: Advocate for the wellbeing of animals.
Stated purpose: Advocate for the wellbeing of animals.
Stated purpose: Advocate for the wellbeing of animals.
Stated purpose: Advocate for the wellbeing of animals.
Stated purpose: Advocate for the wellbeing of animals.
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- ECEDUCATED CHOICES PROGRAM INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +29% · 50% of their budget
- PIPROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +31%
- BFBETTER FOOD FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +3% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- GBGREENER BY DEFAULTone grant, 2023 · $360k · 33% of their budget
- LPLANTERN PUBLISHING & MEDIAone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -47% · 44% of their budget
- OPOceanic Preservation Societygraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +97%
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.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Our mission at Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary is to provide a safe, loving and permanent home for rescued farmed animals whom are not accepted at most shelters. In addition to providing life-long care for the animals, we are dedicated to…
Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.
We firmly believe that the animal welfare and vegan community can significantly enhance their impact by extending their efforts to all corners of the world. Our dedication is to facilitate and contribute to this global outreach, striving…
Exposing and eliminating animal cruelty.
Working to eliminate animal suffering, reduce environmental impacts, and improve human health through a vegan diet.
To provide refuge for unwanted farmed animals, to further their welfare through education of the public and to foster ethics of compassion and responsibility towards nonhuman animals by advocating a vegan lifestyle.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
The Animal Defense Partnership protects animals by providing free legal services to nonprofits that advocate for animals and plant-based diet change. We believe that all animal protection organizations should have access to strong legal…
Pax fauna exists to design a more effective social movement for animal freedom in the u.s., using original research as well as careful study of social movement literature and the recent history of the animal movement, in order to reverse…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Imagine Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 8 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 38% of your grantees by number, and just 53% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
68 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. 68 of the 102 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 VEGFUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILLION DOLLAR VEGAN INC ↗
- Who funds VEGAN FRIENDLY INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATED CHOICES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER FOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD SOLUTIONS ACTION ↗
- Who funds ASHA'S FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds VEGAN HACKTIVISTS INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLANDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENER BY DEFAULT ↗
- Who funds PEACE 4 ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LANTERN PUBLISHING & MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Oceanic Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds PRO-ANIMAL FUTURE ↗
- Who funds SEED STRATEGIES FOR ETHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds VEGAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ADVOCACY AFRICA ↗
- Who funds THE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds Rethink Priorities ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE FARM ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION FOR NUTRITION USA INC ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY 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: Humane America Animal Foundation · The Quinn Foundation · Vegfund Inc · Animal Charity Evaluators · The Greenbaum Foundation · A Well-Fed World · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · The Humane League · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Susan Michaels Compassion Trust · Kh Dominion Foundation 5507-21-40 · Tipping Point Private 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.
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