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Suzanne T & Irving D Karpas Jr Fdn 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.

$295k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$500kHealth$490kReligion$32kCrime & Legal$30kInternational$15kEducation$11kHuman Services$6kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$789k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS$150,000
DANBURY HOSPITAL - NUVANCE$100,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$25,000
KOREY WISE INNOCENCE PROJECT$10,000
MERCY SHIPS$5,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$2,000
SHRINERS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$500
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$500
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US$100
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%ANN'S PLACE: $1k → 9%ANN'S PLACE: $500 → 9%NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATI: $10k → 17%ANN'S PLACE: $500 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 17%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

MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$1.0M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+33%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +128%
  • TD
    The Danbury Hospital
    2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +27%
  • Mercy Ships International
    3× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • MK
    MSBI KARPAS HEALTH INFO CTR
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
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
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
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
4
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
5
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
8
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
The Animal Medical Center

Dedicated to providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and to leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education.

Animals
11
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
12
Sutter Bay Hospitals

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 The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is Paws for Purple Hearts. 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

17 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. 17 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INCDANBURY HOSPITAL - NUVANCE: $220,000 · OtherDANBURY HOSPITAL - NUVANCEMSBI KARPAS HEALTH INFO CTR: $50,000 · OtherMSBI KARPAS HEALTH INFO CTRKOREY WISE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $30,000 · OtherKOREY WISE INNOCENCE PROJECTNEW YORK ZEN CENTER: $15,000 · Other+7 more: $29,020 · Other+7 moreNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $135,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTHThe Danbury Hospital: $80,000 · HealthThe Danbury Hospital+3 more: $2,000 · HealthNEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesANNS PLACE INC: $2,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesMercy Ships International: $10,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,300 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,100 · AnimalsPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $500 · Public BenefitUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $500 · Education
Arts & Culture$500,000Other$344,020Health$217,000Human Services$18,000International$13,500Animals$2,400Public Benefit$500Education$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $500,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Danbury Hospital: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANNS PLACE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $500 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Suzanne T & Irving D Karpas Jr Fdn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suzanne T & Irving D Karpas Jr Fdn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Danbury Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Suzanne T & Irving D Karpas Jr Fdn 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 28 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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