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The Karina Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Karina Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$168kArts & Culture$146kEducation$137kHealth$111kInternational$96kReligion$50kEnvironment$45kHousing & Shelter$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $86k
$8,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$15,000
FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$15,000
THE CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS$11,000
OTSEOGENESIS IMPERFACTA FOUNDATION$10,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$10,000
PORTLAND TRAILS$8,000
THE KIRAN ANJALI PROJECT$5,000
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
SOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP$5,000
LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIROMENT$5,000
OPEN WINDOW SCHOOL$2,000
COMMUNITY NURSE HOME CARE$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Victoria International Foundation I: $20k → 11%Victoria International Foundation I: $18k → 11%Preble Street: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
IL
MA
CT
CA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of The Karina Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Karina Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$494k · 18 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
22

Total granted

$494k
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+37%

Still filing today

78%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    Center For Wooden Boats
    8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +2%
  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    7× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +63%
  • OI
    OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • IH
    In Her Presencegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +131%
  • CO
    City of Portland
    one grant, 2019 · $22k
  • IL
    IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +97%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
5
Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
University of New England

The University of New England prepares students to thrive in a rapidly-changing world and, in so doing, to improve the health of people, communities, and our planet.

Education
8
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.

Science & Tech
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
Sea Education Association Inc

Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…

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12
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Labor Education and Research Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Grace Episcopal Church: $50,000 · OtherGrace Episcopal ChurchCity of Portland: $22,000 · OtherCity of PortlandFabretto Children's Foundation: $20,000 · OtherFabretto Children's FoundationCommunity Foundation of SE MA: $18,000 · OtherMabel Wadsworth Women's Health: $16,000 · OtherLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE: $15,750 · OtherPortalnd Education Foundation: $14,000 · OtherLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $36,500 · OtherLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INCSOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC: $13,000 · OtherCENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $12,000 · OtherIn Her Presence: $25,000 · OtherIn Her PresenceIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $16,000 · OtherSACO RIVER WILDLIFE CENTER: $16,000 · Other+14 more: $82,250 · Other+14 moreSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $149,500 · PhilanthropySOUTHCOAST COMMUNIT…William Marsh Rice University: $55,000 · EducationWilliam Mars…TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF …Side x Side Inc: $13,000 · EducationSide x Side …PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $11,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AN…+2 more: $4,000 · EducationOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthOSTEOGENESIS…SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $28,500 · HealthSOUTHCOAST H…Community Nurse Inc: $16,500 · HealthCommunity Nu…SOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC: $5,000 · HealthCenter For Wooden Boats: $86,500 · Recreation & SportsCenter For…Kiran Anjali Project: $25,000 · InternationalFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $15,000 · InternationalVICTORY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$356,500Philanthropy$149,500Education$98,000Health$95,000Recreation & Sports$86,500International$58,000Human Services$48,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $149,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCenter For Wooden Boats: $86,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetVICTORY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $38,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $36,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $28,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetIn Her Presence: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKiran Anjali Project: $25,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Nurse Inc: $16,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $16,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSACO RIVER WILDLIFE CENTER: $16,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE: $15,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC: $13,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSide x Side Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSippican Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetZEITERION THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPORTLAND TRAILS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMorningside Academy: $7,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarion Art Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOPEN WINDOW SCHOOL: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle People of America Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTAL NEIGHBORS NETWORK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Braitmayer Founda…The Ludes Family Foun…Boston Foundation IncThe Carney Family Cha…Southcoast Community …Bristol County Saving…Willow Creek Charitab…Bascom Charitable Fou…Alvord Family Foundat…Sam L Cohen FoundationMaine Community Found…Association for the R…
The Braitmayer FoundationMA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Karina Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Karina Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Karina Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Karina Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 44 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home