Delaware · Private foundation
The Karuna Charitable Fund
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.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Karuna Charitable Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $70k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $181k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $19k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aga Khan Foundation USA | $175,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Noora Health | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Folk Pittsburgh | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Friends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library | $8,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Together SF | $5,526 | 1 | 0% |
| Institute on Aging | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Friends School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Karuna Charitable Fund
- How much does The Karuna Charitable Fund give?
- The Karuna Charitable Fund reported 1 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Karuna Charitable Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (55%), Health (34%), Education (4%).
- Who are The Karuna Charitable Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Aga Khan Foundation USA ($175k), National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression ($70k), Noora Health ($15k).
- Does The Karuna Charitable Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Karuna Charitable Fund 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 Karuna Charitable Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is The Karuna Charitable Fund based?
- The Karuna Charitable Fund is based in DE.
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