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The Karp Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$250k
Granted FY2026still arriving
5
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$1.0MHealth$207kEnvironment$120kPublic Benefit$83kSocial Science$40kCivil Rights$13kArts & Culture$11kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0
02FY2026 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC SANTA BARBARA$50,000
UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION$50,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$50,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 7%FRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 7%FRIENDS OF GEORGICA PON FOUNDATION: $4k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 16 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2026, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
15

Total granted

$1.1M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+21%

Still filing today

63%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +33%
  • TC
    THE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +112%
  • CC
    CO2 COALITION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +330%

Funded once

  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • EH
    EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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.

1
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
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
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is New York Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYUCLA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATIONUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $50,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY+3 more: $15,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARACedars-Sinai Medical Center -Cardiac Research: $150,000 · OtherCedars-Sinai Medical Center -Cardiac R…THE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATI…UC SANTA BARBARA: $50,000 · OtherUC SANTA BARBARAEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE CENTER: $20,000 · Other+16 more: $59,364 · Other+16 moreTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $45,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $18,000 · Public BenefitCO2 COALITION: $75,000 · EnvironmentJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: $8,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $2,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $185 · Civil Rights
Education$865,200Other$579,364Public Benefit$118,000Environment$75,000Philanthropy$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Civil Rights$15,185

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $450,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCO2 COALITION: $75,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGICA POND FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $185 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $90 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 39 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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