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KARUNA FOUNDATION

EIN 85-4026412 CHEYENNE, WY

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Revenue 2025
$34,225,206
Expenses 2025
$33,929,572

Program services were 99.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
D01
Classification
1000
Street
1908 THOMES AVE 12227

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Making distributions to individuals and organizations that advocate for and/or support the wellbeing of animals, our natural environment and all global citizens, particularly by addressing humanitarian crises or deficiencies in nutrition or food systems.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Supporting the wellbeing of animals, our natural environment and all global citizens.

  • Distributions and loans to organizations that advocate the wellbeing of animals.

    Expenses $24,194,835 · Grants $22,570,848

  • Fiscal sponsorship of mission-aligned charitable initiatives.

    Expenses $9,689,062 · Grants $9,689,062

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Shilpi Shah

    President/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

  • Patricia Kowalewski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Krista Hiddema

    Director

    Total calculated
    $236,758
    From this org
    $236,758
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $236,758
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $236,758

  • Shaleen Shah

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Lauri Torgerson-White

    Philanthropy Officer

    Total calculated
    $114,670
    From this org
    $114,670
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $34,225,206
    Expenses
    $33,929,572
    Contributions
    $34,225,206
    Grants paid
    $32,259,910
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $35,412,280
    Expenses
    $35,569,695
    Contributions
    $35,412,280
    Grants paid
    $32,856,443
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $34,504,274
    Expenses
    $33,757,901
    Contributions
    $34,504,274
    Grants paid
    $31,431,123
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $26,842,823
    Expenses
    $26,494,769
    Contributions
    $26,842,823
    Grants paid
    $25,735,847

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $18,292,145
    Expenses
    $17,827,328
    Assets (EOY)
    $474,878

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Shaleen Shah
Mailing address
7522 Monarch RdNiwot CO 80503

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • Eat Differently LLC

    To promote a vegan diet and lifestyle · CO · income $0 · assets $2,088

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.