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The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 16
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$545k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$31k0%
FY202312$37k25%
FY202213$45k38%
FY202114$37k21%
FY202016$37k63%
FY201914$36k71%
FY20189$18kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$56kReligion$44kArts & Culture$31kEnvironment$23kPhilanthropy$16kHealth$12kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Cayuga County Community College Foundation Inc$35,00062%
Auburn Public Theater Inc$27,00071%
The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc$22,50050%
United Way of Cayuga County Inc$11,00031%
Matthew House Inc$10,70051%
Ministro Ministries Inc$6,500410%
Abc Cayuga Inc$5,00011%
Creighton University$5,00020%
Auburn Education Foundation Inc$4,50023%
Tyburn Academy of Mary Immaculate Inc$4,00050%
St Nicholas Orthodox Church$2,5001n/a
The Salvation Army$2,5002n/a
Onondaga Community College Association Inc$1,80020%
Knights of Columbus Council 207$50011%

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Cayuga County Community College Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAuburn Public Theater Inc: $27,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetThe Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Cayuga County Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMatthew House Inc: $10,700 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMinistro Ministries Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetAbc Cayuga Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCreighton University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAuburn Education Foundation Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTyburn Academy of Mary Immaculate Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOnondaga Community College Association Inc: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKnights of Columbus Council 207: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Fred L Emerson Foundation IncNY22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation

How much does The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation give?
The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $31,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Religion (18%), Arts & Culture (13%).
Who are The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Cayuga County Community College Foundation Inc ($35k), Auburn Public Theater Inc ($27k), The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ($23k).
Does The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc, De French Foundation Inc, Central New York Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation based?
The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation is based in MA.

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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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