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Scot and Lance Karp Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Scot and Lance Karp Family Foundation Inc

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.

$255k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Health$73kArts & Culture$17kPhilanthropy$10kCivil Rights$10kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$228Education$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $123k
$6,296
Median grant
4
States reached
$457k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$73,323
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
DAP HEALTH$30,000
MCCALLUM THEATER$25,000
RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL$15,000
PALM SPRINGS FILM FESTIVAL$14,595
THE CENTER PALM SPRINGS$11,200
PALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATER$8,334
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$6,296
JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT$6,200
PALM SPRINGS ANIMAL SHELTER$5,000
TAMARISK CC SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,500
PRESERVATION MIRAGE$2,500
THE MANILOW FOUNDATION$2,490
NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EISENHOWER MEDICAL: $52k → 11%THE MANILOW FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%TOMORROWS HOPE FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%PARKINSONS FOUNDATION: $180 → 17%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $100 → 14%PACIFIC LIFE: $73k → 17%USMODERNIST: $120 → 11%SECOND HARVEST: $228 → 12%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $3k → 7%EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 11%MANILOW FUND: $2k → 14%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $100 → 17%NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY: $1k → 14%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION: $5k → 17%RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $15k → 11%JNF: $1k → 17%MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION: $1k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT: $6k → 11%JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $6k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS: $5k → 11%LAMBDA LEGAL: $10k → 17%TAMARISK CC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $3k → 11%PRESERVATION MIRAGE: $3k → 11%MCCALLUM THEATER: $25k → 11%PRESERVATION MIRAGE: $2k → 11%PALM SPRINGS ANIMAL SHELTER: $5k → 11%MCCALLUM THEATER: $1k → 11%RANCHO MIRAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100 → 11%DESERT AIDS PROJECT INC DBA DAP HEALTH: $60k → 11%DAP HEALTH: $30k → 11%PALM SPRINGS FILM FESTIVAL: $15k → 11%DAP HEALTH: $12k → 11%THE CENTER PALM SPRINGS: $11k → 11%PALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATER: $8k → 11%PALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATER: $8k → 11%PALM SPRINGS FILM FESTIVAL: $5k → 11%PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$164k · 4 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +288% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

$164k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+288%
+11%

Still filing today

25%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’25
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCivil RightsEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DH
    DAP Health Inc
    3× · 2022–2025 · $102k · revenue +288%
  • MT
    MCCALLUM THEATER
    2× · 2023–2025 · $26k
  • PS
    PALM SPRINGS FILM FESTIVAL
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $52k
  • LL
    LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +127%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
The Paley Center for Media

Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…

Arts & Culture
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture
8
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Promote and fund research into developing better diagnostic processes, therapies, and cures for frontotemporal degeneration (ftd); provide information, education, support and advocacy to persons diagnosed with ftd, their families and…

Health
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating a cure for each and every multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies,…

Health
11
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
12
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dap Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $73,323 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $52,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMCCALLUM THEATER: $26,000 · OtherMCCALLUM THEATERPALM SPRINGS FILM FESTIVAL: $19,595 · OtherPALM SPRINGS FILM FESTIVALPALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATER: $16,667 · OtherPALM SPRINGS PLAZA THEATERJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA: $11,500 · OtherTHE CENTER PALM SPRINGS: $11,200 · Other+11 more: $18,346 · Other+11 moreDAP Health Inc: $102,200 · HealthDAP Health IncEisenhower Medical Center: $50,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center+3 more: $380 · HealthRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $15,000 · EducationJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $6,296 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsPRESERVATION MIRAGE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $1,100 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $228 · Food & Nutrition
Other$228,631Health$152,580Education$15,000Philanthropy$13,296Civil Rights$10,000Arts & Culture$3,700Food & Nutrition$228

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDAP Health Inc: $102,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION MIRAGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $228 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scot and Lance Karp Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scot and Lance Karp Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Scot and Lance Karp Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Scot and Lance Karp Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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