Public Charity

KARA

KARA is a Public Charity headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. Financial data from the 2024 filing: $2.1M revenue, $2.1M expenses, $2.0M total assets. 79 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $3.1M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 942431483 Palo Alto, CA Latest filing: 2024
Total Revenue$2.1M
Total Expenses$2.1M
Total Assets$2.0M
Grant Records79
Funding Total$3.1M
Filing Years2020–2024

Mission

Kara provides grief support for children, teens, families and adults. Guided by its core values of empathy and compassion, and belief that loss and grief impact everyone, Kara supports people of all ages on their journey through grief so they can move toward renewed hope and meaning.

Where $100 goes at Kara

How Kara divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 8 years.

$72 Programs the work itself
$12 Management running the organization
$16 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $72 for programs

$72
Serving the SF Bay Area since 1976, Kara provides comprehensive bereavement support and grief education services to the community through individual and group peer support; in-house psychotherapy; on…
All program spending · Reported in the filing: 200 volunteers; 6,000 members; 266 volunteers
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2024. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

At Large Alexander Alvey
At Large Caitlin Smallwood
Vice Chair Elisa Odabashian
Board Chair Elizabeth Liz Quinn
Secretary Jacquie Davidson
Executive Dir. James A Santucci

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$1,765,352 48 grants
Human & Social Services
$665,900 11 grants
Health & Medicine
$425,125 13 grants
Youth Development
$13,629 1 grant
Unspecified
$185,000 3 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2024 $2.1M $2.1M $2.0M
2023 $1.8M $1.8M $1.9M
2022 $1.8M $1.7M $1.9M
2021 $1.7M $1.4M $1.9M
2020 $1.6M $1.3M $1.7M

Between 2020 and 2024, reported annual revenue grew from $1.6M to $2.1M (+31%), with total assets most recently reported at $2.0M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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