Karpus Family Foundation Grants

The Karpus Family Foundation Grants provide support to organizations focused on helping people and animals in need. With a commitment to education and community welfare, the foundation funds various initiatives, including assistance for disabled veterans, prevention of domestic abuse, and animal welfare. Organizations operating in the Greater Rochester area, Florida, and Cleveland are prioritized, and grants are awarded to 501(c)(3) entities that align with these goals. Applications are accepted year-round, with specific cycles for full proposals.

NOTE: The Karpus Family Foundation accepts LOIs year-round, reviewed within 21 days. Invited full applications are due at least one month before board meetings for its three annual cycles: first quarter (late March), late spring/early summer (late May–June), and early fall (late August). Exact 2025 dates are listed in the online grant portal.
The Karpus Family Foundation, founded by George W. Karpus, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation with an emphasis on helping people and animals in need. Promoting education is also a goal, with the ultimate objective of helping people live a productive life.
Funding Purposes
Training and assisting disabled individuals and disabled armed forces veterans to become productive workers and lead productive lives.Preventing the abuse to women and children and providing medical and health services to such abused women and children who cannot otherwise afford it.
Fostering the role of education in preventing community violence and reducing the threat of criminals to society.
Preventing cruelty to animals and caring of displaced animals; provided, however, that no support shall be provided to medical charities that cause suffering to animals.
Providing anti-abortion incentives and right to life education to the general Christian/Judeo public.
Supporting medical institutions that provide leading edge treatment and research.
Providing educational assistance in the form of grants and scholarships to individuals of a charitable class, provided, however that grants or scholarships shall not be awarded either to individuals who are employed by the Foundation or to the children of individuals who are employed by the Foundation.
Supporting organizations that promote: sound, conservative economic principals and education, free markets, capitalism, and the United States Constitution.

Eligibility

The requesting organization must be a 501(c)(3) or equivalent whose programs/projects meet the Karpus Family Foundation’s funding purposes and key factors for funding.