· Private foundation
Solot and Karp Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k80 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $182k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $35,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC | $22,500 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO | $20,000 |
| TEMPLE SHALOM INC | $15,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $13,000 |
| NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC | $12,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL OF NORTHBROOK | $12,000 |
| MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC | $12,000 |
| RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE SHALOM INC | $5,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| TEMPLE SHALOM INC | $3,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $3,000 |
| COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND AR | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $361k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Solot and Karp Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 12 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- YFYELLOWSTONE FOREVER9× · 2017–2025 · $479k · revenue +688%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +13%
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTone grant, 2017 · $28k
- CACincinnati Arts and Technology Centerone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -24%
- ASARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -95%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp for All Kids. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 162 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 YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds The Ideal School of Manhattan ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds SOARING EAGLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds Vets Helping Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Vivo Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Myra Friedman Family Foundation · Kaye Family Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 Solot and Karp Family 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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.