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The Karena Lee Adler 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.

$905k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$80,000
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$19M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$262kHuman Services$203kHealth$165kEducation$155kPublic Benefit$100kYouth Development$95kInternational$87kCrime & Legal$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MA
IA
CA
UT
DC
HI
MS
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Residential Youth Services & Empowerment$120,00021%
Battle Scarred Motorsports$100,000231%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$80,00020%
Montessori Community School$70,00021%
Child and Family Service$50,00010%
Homeaid America Inc$50,00011%
Waikiki Health$50,00010%
Waymakers$50,00010%
Fred Finch Youth Center$50,00010%
Youthcare$50,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Where it is load-bearing

The Karena Lee Adler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetResidential Youth Services & Empowerment: $120,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBattle Scarred Motorsports: $100,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMontessori Community School: $70,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChild and Family Service: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeaid America Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWaikiki Health: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWaymakers: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFred Finch Youth Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouthcare: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHale Kipa Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFirst Place for Youth: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssets School: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVariety School of Hawaii: $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCasa De Amparo: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChapin Hall Center for Children: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEllipsis Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Mockingbird Society: $23,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetParents and Children Together: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Futures: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSmall House Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFriends of Youth: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPartners in Development Foundation: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Horizons Ministries: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMid-Pacific Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSos Children's Villages-Usa Inc: $7,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Hawaii Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe People Concern: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 29.

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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.

J Watumull FundHI24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Aloha United Way Inc · Tradewind Group Foundation · Trustees of the Estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Dba Kamehameha Schools · Atherton Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Queen's Medical Center · Hawaii Foodbank Inc · Aloha Harvest · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Macnaughton Foundation

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 Karena Lee Adler Foundation

How much does The Karena Lee Adler Foundation give?
The Karena Lee Adler Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $905,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Karena Lee Adler Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (23%), Human Services (18%), Health (15%).
Who are The Karena Lee Adler Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Residential Youth Services & Empowerment ($120k), Battle Scarred Motorsports ($100k), Globalgiving Foundation Inc ($80k).
Does The Karena Lee Adler 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 Karena Lee Adler Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J Watumull Fund, Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn, Aloha United Way Inc.
Where is The Karena Lee Adler Foundation based?
The Karena Lee Adler Foundation is based in DE.

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 30 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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