· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k24 grants · $585k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue | $550,000 |
| Pro-Animal Future | $475,000 |
| Food Solutions Action | $450,000 |
| Vegan Friendly USA | $423,000 |
| Project Slingshot Inc | $300,000 |
| Effect Partners FBO Vegan Strong | $270,000 |
| Veganfta | $257,560 |
| Middle East Vegan Society Inc | $245,000 |
| Animal Alliance Asia | $200,000 |
| Food 4 Thought Festival Inc | $180,938 |
| Food Policy Pathways | $160,000 |
| Animals United Movement | $150,000 |
| Vegan Hacktivists Inc | $141,766 |
| Good Food World Foundation Inc | $100,000 |
| Plant Based Treaty SFV | $84,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $26M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $24M to organizations and $1.4M 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.
Stated purpose: Advocate for the wellbeing of animals.
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 +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 22 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECEDUCATED CHOICES PROGRAM INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +29% · 50% of their budget
- FSFOOD SOLUTIONS ACTION4× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue ×12 · 32% of their budget
- PIPROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +31%
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%
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.
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…
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 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.
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…
Exposing and eliminating animal cruelty.
Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
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.
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…
How this is measured
79 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. 79 of the 124 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 VEGFUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILLION DOLLAR VEGAN INC ↗
- Who funds VEGAN FRIENDLY INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATED CHOICES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD SOLUTIONS ACTION ↗
- Who funds PROVEG INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER FOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLANDS ANIMAL SANCTUARY AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds VEGAN HACKTIVISTS INC ↗
- Who funds PRO-ANIMAL FUTURE ↗
- Who funds ASHA'S FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENER BY DEFAULT ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST VEGAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD 4 THOUGHT INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE 4 ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Animal Alliance Asia ↗
- Who funds BETTER HEALTH BETTER LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LANTERN PUBLISHING & MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Animals United Movement ↗
- Who funds Oceanic Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds VEGAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HAPPINESS ↗
- Who funds SEED STRATEGIES FOR ETHICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Rethink Priorities ↗
- Who funds THE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD 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: 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
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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