Washington · Private foundation
The Karl 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.
- $38k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 40
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $309k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Karl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $580 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 | 8 | $38k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $30k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $39k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $29k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $29k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $29k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Service | $85,475 | 7 | 0% |
| Temple de Hirsch Sinai | $39,925 | 7 | n/a |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $4,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Holocaust Center For Humanity | $2,960 | 4 | 0% |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $1,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $1,101 | 5 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $1,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $680 | 2 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Washington | $600 | 3 | 0% |
| Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Karl 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: Seattle Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · American Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Karl Foundation
- How much does The Karl Foundation give?
- The Karl Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $37,916 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 40 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Karl Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Religion (25%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Karl Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Jewish Family Service ($85k), Temple de Hirsch Sinai ($40k), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($5k).
- Does The Karl Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Karl 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 Karl Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, American Gift Fund.
- Where is The Karl Foundation based?
- The Karl Foundation is based in WA.
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