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The Karpus Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Karpus Family Foundation Inc

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.

$812k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$899kHuman Services$731kEducation$702kAnimals$692kPublic Benefit$467kArts & Culture$438kHousing & Shelter$385kCivil Rights$355kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $547k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
$16,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
EDWINS LEADERSHIPS & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE$50,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF ONTARIO COUNTY$50,000
SEMPER FI FUND$50,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND OH$50,000
COMPASS CARE PREGNANCY SERVICES$40,000
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$40,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER$40,000
THE POTTERS HANDS FOUNDATION$35,000
LIVE ACTION$35,000
STAY IN STEP$30,000
BETTER TOGETHER$25,000
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION$25,000
DISABILITY EMPOWHER NETWORK INC$25,000
SUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY$20,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $15k → 17%BETTER TOGETHER: $25k → 10%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $25k → 21%BETTER TOGETHER: $10k → 10%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $20k → 21%SUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY: $20k → 10%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%SUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY: $15k → 10%SUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY: $15k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%HOME START HOPE: $15k → 14%HOME START HOPE: $10k → 14%WEBSTER ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR PROGRAM SUPPORTERS: $3k → 14%WEBSTER ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR PROGRAM SUPPORTERS: $2k → 14%WEBSTER ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR PROGRAM SUPPORTERS: $2k → 14%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CA
NE
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 53 repeat orgs$730k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
35

Total granted

$4.3M
$626k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+17%

Still filing today

77%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NT
    NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +87%
  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    5× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +56%
  • EL
    EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $95k
  • Veterans Outreach Center Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -26%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +12%
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
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
3
Operation Pets - the Spay-Neuter Clinic of Wny Inc

Operation pets provides high quality, high volume, affordable spay and neuter services to the underserved population of western new york including outreach to local animal welfare groups.

Animals
4
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
5
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
6
Search for Change Inc

Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…

Human Services
7
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
8
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
9
The Way Back Inc

To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…

Human Services
10
Pets for Patriots Inc

The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…

Animals
11
Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services
12
Beagle Freedom Project

Beagle freedom project's mission is to eliminate the suffering of all animals. this goal is achieved by rescuing exploited, abused, unwanted and homeless animals and by educating the public of the vast extent of the suffering animals…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Heritage Home for Women. 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

72 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. 72 of the 96 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
54/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER: $247,008 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTERIndividual grant recipient: $95,133 · OtherSTAY IN STEP: $90,000 · OtherPROJECT VERITAS: $90,000 · OtherBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $150,000 · OtherBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INCLIVE ACTION: $125,000 · OtherLIVE ACTIONTRUE THE VOTE INC: $110,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC: $145,000 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INCJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC: $154,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK IN…+47 more: $1,108,000 · Other+47 moreNEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthNEUROENDOCRINE TU…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $245,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERI…CANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC: $100,000 · HealthCANCER ALLIANCE N…Crisis Pregnancy Services Inc: $85,000 · HealthCrisis Pregnancy …EQUICENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthEQUICENTER INCANGELS OF MERCY INC: $40,000 · Health+2 more: $50,000 · Health+2 moreEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $225,000 · EducationEDWINS LEADER…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $130,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVER…ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $88,100 · EducationROBERTS WESLE…Conservative Partnership Institute: $85,000 · EducationConservative …FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $50,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BR…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $41,886 · EducationHILLSDALE COL…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationLeadership Institute: $175,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $120,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Public BenefitDISABILITY EMPOWHER NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $16,500 · Public BenefitTHE POTTERS HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · PhilanthropyGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC: $110,000 · PhilanthropyTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $16,200 · PhilanthropyHONOR SANCTUARY INC: $140,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $100,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $35,000 · AnimalsSATCHELS LAST RESORT: $30,000 · AnimalsPROJECT K9 HERO: $25,000 · AnimalsPUPPY MILL RESCUE TEAM INC: $20,000 · AnimalsCRACKER BOX PALACE INC: $20,000 · Animals+3 more: $20,000 · AnimalsTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: $175,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $135,000 · Arts & CultureACCURACY IN MEDIA INC: $27,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,314,141Health$820,000Education$629,986Public Benefit$411,500Philanthropy$391,200Animals$390,000Arts & Culture$337,500

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 budgetNEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $245,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $225,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetLeadership Institute: $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE POTTERS HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC: $154,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC: $145,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHONOR SANCTUARY INC: $140,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $135,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $125,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE THE VOTE INC: $110,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC: $110,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $88,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $85,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCrisis Pregnancy Services Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVeterans Outreach Center Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MARGARET HOME INC: $52,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDISABILITY EMPOWHER NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetEQUICENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $41,886 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HALL: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetANGELS OF MERCY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetHOMELESS HOUNDS ANIMAL RESCUE: $40,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC: $30,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSATCHELS LAST RESORT: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACCURACY IN MEDIA INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMORGANS MESSAGE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHOME START HOPE: $25,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBella's Bumbas LTD: $25,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMoms for Liberty Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

United Way of Greater…Rochester Area Commun…Paychex Charitable Fo…Max and Marian Farash…Esl Charitable Founda…Rochester Area Commun…Greater Rochester Hea…Charles J & Burton S …JM McDonald Foundatio…Daisy Marquis Jones F…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…The Charles and Mary …
United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes IncNY37.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · The Charles and Mary Crossed 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 Karpus Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Karpus Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to The Karpus Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Karpus Family Foundation Inc 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 96 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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