Kara Foundation
EIN 36-3779796 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 114 grants · $1.7m
Who it funds most
10 of its 24 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Kara Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 24 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202500989349101110
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
Its returns6 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202621189349100012 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202500989349101110 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202440949349100869 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202301249349100145 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202201029349100035 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202121139349100922 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Kara Foundation made 161 grants across 2020–2025, totalling $2.2m as filed.
- Grants
- 161
- Total, as filed
- $2.2m
- Years
- 2020–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| SMILES | 4 | $205.0k |
| ST CHARLES POLICE DEPARTMENT | 4 | $166.5k |
| LIFELINE PILOTS | 6 | $136.0k |
| LAKELAND SCHOOL OF WALWORTH COUNTY | 4 | $129.9k |
| MOBILE CARES CHICAGO | 3 | $117.0k |
| DONKA INC | 6 | $115.0k |
| WAYNE TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY | 6 | $92.0k |
| NAPERVILLE RESPONDS FOR OUR VETERANS | 5 | $90.0k |
| TOWN OF RANDALL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | 4 | $85.0k |
| TOWN OF BURLINGTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | 5 | $82.5k |
| WESTOSHA SENIOR COMMUNITY | 3 | $76.5k |
| 3 FIRES COUNCIL | 1 | $65.0k |
| GIVENKIND | 4 | $51.0k |
| PHILLIPS PARK ZOO | 2 | $50.0k |
| RACINE COUNTY ZOO | 1 | $50.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 55 | $314.0k |
| 2021 | 27 | $328.7k |
| 2022 | 24 | $377.0k |
| 2023 | 17 | $379.4k |
| 2024 | 15 | $406.0k |
| 2025 | 23 | $425.0k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-363779796. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified