· Private foundation
The Karafin 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $160,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF | $145,000 |
| AMERICAN EDUCATION FUND | $135,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST FORUM | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILA | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA | $20,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL | $1,950 |
| JINSA | $1,000 |
| FREIRE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JCHAI | $1,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $1,000 |
| MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $500 |
| BARNES FOUNDATION | $495 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE3× · 2023–2025 · $460k · revenue +44%- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +164%
- JCJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- SKSIDNEY KIMMEL CANCER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $500
- JLJEWISH LEARNING VENTUREgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $250 · revenue +32%
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
To provide early childhood and jewish education to the community.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FREIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
- Who funds NAEMT Foundation ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Karafin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Karafin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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