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The Karma 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE | $72,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,078 |
| BILDNER CENTER - RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| HOMEFRONT | $20,000 |
| MOMENT MAGAZINE | $15,000 |
| MATAN | $10,500 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $6,250 |
| ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY | $6,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATRE | $5,500 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATER | $5,000 |
| RUTGERS HILLEL | $3,600 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE | $3,200 |
| TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE | $2,500 |
| ANSHE EMETH MEMORIAL TEMPLE | $2,300 |
| UNITED WAY - CENTRAL JERSEY | $2,180 |
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 (FY22–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- GSGEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC4× · 2020–2024 · $272k · revenue +22%
- MIMATAN INC4× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +85%
HOMEFRONT INC2× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- RURutgers Universityone grant, 2020 · $31k
- WCWBEVWXRO CHILDREN'S RADIOTHON INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -1%
- BDBeaver Dam Area Comm Theaterone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.
The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.
The Actors Company Theatre is dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit, with a focus on creating theatre from its essence: the text and the actor's ability to bring it to life. Over the past eighteen…
Guided by jewish values and heritage, the edlavitch dc jewish community center (edcjcc) engages individuals and families through its cultural, recreational, educational, and social justice programs by welcoming people of all backgrounds to…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is N J Coalition to End Homelessness and the most unlike its peers is Children's Specialized Hospital. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. 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 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 48 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 GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC ↗
- Who funds MATAN INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE ↗
- Who funds WBEVWXRO CHILDREN'S RADIOTHON INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds Rutgers Hillel Corporation ↗
- Who funds FULL OF GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NEXT FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC ↗
- Who funds National Liberty Museum ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY THEATRE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ARS NOVA THEATER I INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds N J COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LIBI INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Glasgold Family Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Express Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Karma 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.
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of Central Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wheaton Arts & Cultural 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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