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The Roma Karp 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNY PLATTSBURGH | $62,500 |
| GLK FOUNDATION | $52,500 |
| CAST INC | $30,000 |
| SISTERHOOD OF ST JOSEPH | $15,000 |
| MORICHES PAQUATUCK SQUAWS INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AINE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| EAST END HOSPICE | $5,500 |
| THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT PROJECT | $5,000 |
| ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $5,000 |
| EAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY | $4,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOPE ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY RC CHURCH | $4,000 |
| OLD COVE YACHT CLUB INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- CICAST INC7× · 2019–2025 · $190k · revenue +35%
- FOFRIENDS OF AINE5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +171%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC3× · 2018–2021 · $70k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CLChild Life Disaster Relief Incone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -40%
- EEEAST END DISABILITY ASSOCIATES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +60%
- HOHEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTDone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +7%
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.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the community hospice is a member of st. peter's health partners…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Care dimensions, inc. (cd) enriches quality of life by providing expert care, support, education, and consultation for those affected by life limiting illness, death, and loss.
The mission of hospice east, inc. is to enhance the quality of life for incurably ill persons and their families in clark and powell counties, kentucky by providing physical, social, psychological and spiritual care.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities
To serve people with developmental disabilities
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. home aide service of eastern new york is a member of st. peter's…
Dignity, comfort and peace at the end of life high peaks hospice & palliative care, inc provides end of life care that listens with respect, cares with compassion, supports with choice, and comforts with understanding wherever you call home
To provide end of life care, bereavement counseling and spiritual services to the terminally ill and their families in oneida, herkimer, and eastern madison counties, new york.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East End Disability Associates Inc and the most unlike its peers is Old Cove Yacht Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 23 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
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 CAST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AINE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP PAQUATUCK FUNDRAISERS INC ↗
- Who funds Child Life Disaster Relief Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK PARISH OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds East End Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST END DISABILITY ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE HAMPTONS LTD ↗
- Who funds Old Cove Yacht Club Inc ↗
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: The New York Community Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Roma Karp 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.
- Cast Inc — 15% 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.
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