California · Private foundation
The Karsh Family Foundation
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.
- $48M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2026
- 82
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $7,024,181
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 82
- FY2018 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 12
- Total assets, FY2026
- $484M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 43% of the organizations The Karsh Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 83 | $47M | 28% |
| FY2025 | 82 | $20M | 43% |
| FY2024 | 75 | $38M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $29M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 54 | $35M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $26M | 42% |
| FY2019 | 75 | $23M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 81 | $20M | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kipp Foundation | $26,557,046 | 9 | 6% |
| University of Virginia Law School Foundation | $21,825,000 | 6 | 26% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $20,071,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Kipp Socal Public Schools | $12,536,433 | 6 | 6% |
| Duke University | $12,120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Howard University | $11,072,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $9,972,313 | 7 | 1% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $8,001,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Eat Learn Play Foundation | $7,320,050 | 5 | 5% |
| Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund | $7,000,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 221 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($68M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Karsh Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 181 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Karsh Family Foundation
- How much does The Karsh Family Foundation give?
- The Karsh Family Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $47,968,051 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 82 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
- What does The Karsh Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (71%), Health (8%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are The Karsh Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Kipp Foundation ($27M), University of Virginia Law School Foundation ($22M), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($20M).
- Does The Karsh Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Karsh Family 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 Karsh Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is The Karsh Family Foundation based?
- The Karsh Family Foundation is based in CA.
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