· Private foundation
The Karina Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $15,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS | $11,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| OTSEOGENESIS IMPERFACTA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PORTLAND TRAILS | $8,000 |
| SOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP | $5,000 |
| THE KIRAN ANJALI PROJECT | $5,000 |
| LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIROMENT | $5,000 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| OPEN WINDOW SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY NURSE HOME CARE | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of The Karina Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCenter For Wooden Boats8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +2%
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University7× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +63%
- OIOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IHIn Her Presencegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +131%
- COCity of Portlandone grant, 2019 · $22k
- ILIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +97%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Labor Education and Research Inc and the most unlike its peers is Victory International Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center For Wooden Boats ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VICTORY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds In Her Presence ↗
- Who funds Kiran Anjali Project ↗
- Who funds FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SACO RIVER WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Side x Side Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Sippican Historical Society ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds ZEITERION THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND TRAILS ↗
- Who funds Morningside Academy ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Marion Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN WINDOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Little People of America Inc ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Braitmayer Foundation · The Ludes Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · Bascom Charitable Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Karina Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc — 29% of income from government
- Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc — 15% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Zeiterion Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Marion Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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