· Private foundation
The Karsh Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $726k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+13 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - KARSH INSTITUTE OF DEMOCRACY | $5,300,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE - FACTS FOR PEACE | $2,500,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE - FACTS FOR PEACE | $2,500,000 |
| KIPP FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA (LA & NATIONAL) | $1,500,000 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE - KARSH KIPP II SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| HEADCOUNT | $500,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $250,000 |
| STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM | $250,000 |
| SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER | $250,000 |
| NEW YORK CONSOLIDATED INC (CENTER FOR ART RESEARCH AND ALLIANCES INC) | $250,000 |
| SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER | $250,000 |
| EDUCATION REFORM NOW | $200,000 |
| CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +28% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.8M 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $22M · revenue +113% · 26% of their budget
- KFKIPP FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +143%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER6× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +63%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $4.4M
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION - ISRAEL CRISIS FUNDone grant, 2024 · $3.0M
- HUHOWARD UNIVERSITY (GRACE GRANT ENDOWMENT FUND)one grant, 2024 · $2.0M
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 association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
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.
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
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…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Chester Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
202 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. 202 of the 294 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ↗
- Who funds LULU'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES 2028 ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
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 Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Great Public Schools Now · The Ahmanson Foundation
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 Karsh Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Aleph Institute Inc — 0% 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.