New York · Private foundation
The Herman & Kate Caro 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.
- $53k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $789k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Herman & Kate Caro Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $53k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $144k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $73k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $71k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $14k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $28k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $6k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eilat Charities Inc | $142,300 | 7 | 6% |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Machon Moreshes Ashkenaz | $37,500 | 6 | 7% |
| Amit Children Inc | $36,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Yad Sarah Inc | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hatzalah of the Rockaways & Nassau County Inc | $25,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Congregation Kneseth Israel | $25,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $15,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eilat Charities Inc | $142,300 | 7 | 6% |
| American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Machon Moreshes Ashkenaz | $37,500 | 6 | 7% |
| Amit Children Inc | $36,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Yad Sarah Inc | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hatzalah of the Rockaways & Nassau County Inc | $25,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Congregation Kneseth Israel | $25,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $15,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Sholom Shachna | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshivas Chsan Sofer Inc | $10,750 | 6 | n/a |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Hydrocephalus Association | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Zaka North Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Israel Magen Fund Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Herman & Kate Caro Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Herman & Kate Caro Foundation
- How much does The Herman & Kate Caro Foundation give?
- The Herman & Kate Caro Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $53,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Herman & Kate Caro Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (47%), International (20%), Health (17%).
- Who are The Herman & Kate Caro Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eilat Charities Inc ($142k), American Committee for Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem Inc ($40k), Machon Moreshes Ashkenaz ($38k).
- Does The Herman & Kate Caro Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Herman & Kate Caro 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 Herman & Kate Caro Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Herman & Kate Caro Foundation based?
- The Herman & Kate Caro Foundation is based in NY.
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