New York · Nonprofit
KARA FUND INC
KARA FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,522 to it, the largest being WALDRON RISE FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $155k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $213k
What Kara Fund Inc does
Mission
Provide comfort goods to seriously ill children and their families
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Comfort Care Program- Provide food cards, gas cards, parking passes, etc. to children and families in a hospital setting. Provide specialized equipment for the comfort of children in a hospital setting. We service over 3,000 persons and work primarily through Upstate Hospital and Crouse Hospital.
$28,126 spent28% of program spendingHome Care Program- Provide comfort goods and equipment to children and families as they transition to home from a hospital setting. We service over 2,000 persons.
$17,001 spent17% of program spendingFamily Care Program- Providing comfort goods to individual seriously ill children and their families. We service over 50 persons.
$17,969 spent18% of program spendingScholarship Program- Memorial scholarship to students in the East Syracuse Minoa school district
$2,100 spent2% of program spendingCommunity Care Program- Provide food cards, gas cards, comfort goods, etc. to seriously ill children and their families.
$30,170 spent30% of program spendingSickle Cell Program - Provide family entertainment events to children and their families with children who have sickle cell disease. Examples are bowling or going to a play where families can connect.
$6,300 spent6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $101,666.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $167k to $213k (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
95% of KARA FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $8k → $12k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KARA FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
KARA FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 49% · 2022 78% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of KARA FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
70% of KARA FUND INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
KARA FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KARA FUND INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KARA FUND INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KARA FUND INC?
- KARA FUND INC (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,522 to it, the largest being WALDRON RISE FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KARA FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $72,522 in grants to KARA FUND INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KARA FUND INC?
- WALDRON RISE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KARA FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing