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Andrew Kramer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$100kHealth$79kYouth Development$66kScience & Tech$64kCivil Rights$63kHuman Services$60kPhilanthropy$43kFood & Nutrition$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lipscomb University$75,000
Cheekwood Society Nature Reserve$12,500
Corona Unified Soccer Club$12,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WESTSIDE CHILDRENS CENTER: $18k → 14%Tennessee Fisher House Foundation: $12k → 9%WESTSIDE CHILDRENS CENTER: $11k → 14%Tennessee Fisher House Foundation: $11k → 9%Tennessee Fisher House Foundation: $8k → 9%Stater Bros Charities: $12k → 10%Stater Bros Charities: $12k → 10%Stater Bros Charities: $11k → 10%Stater Bros Charities: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$561k · 15 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against -65% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$561k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
-65%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LU
    LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +19%
  • AF
    ARRL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $44k · revenue +207%
  • TL
    TRAIL LIFE USA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $44k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -65%
  • 4P
    4 PAWS 4 PATRIOTS
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -80%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Alliance for Media Arts Culture Inc

To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.

Arts & Culture
2
First Look Institute Inc

First Look Institute supports fearless investigative journalism, innovative and cinematic nonfiction filmmaking, and press freedom initiatives to protect the right to a free and open society and press.

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Conservation Leadership

To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.

Community Improvement
4
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund

The intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, and other severe injuries.the intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury,…

Philanthropy
5
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
6
Advocates for Faith and Freedom

Organized for religious purposes to promote the gospel of jesus christ by protecting, defending and advocating religious civil liberties

Crime & Legal
7
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster
10
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

12
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arrl Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Allies for Every Child Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITYCHOC Children's Hospital of OC — $54,182 · OtherCHOC Children's Hospital of OCSecond Harvest Food Bank OC — $32,821 · OtherSecond Harvest Food Bank OCAdvocates for Faith Freedom — $31,360 · OtherAdvocates for Faith FreedomElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $20,616 · OtherElectronic Frontier Foundation IncCorona Unified Soccer Club — $12,500 · OtherCheekwood Society Nature Reserve — $12,500 · OtherPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $12,205 · Other4 PAWS 4 PATRIOTS — $12,205 · OtherFree Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children — $16,616 · OtherFree Arts dba Free Arts for Abused ChildrenStater Bros Charities — $42,814 · Human ServicesStater Bros Chariti…TENNESSEE FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $31,359 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE FISHER HO…Allies for Every Child Inc — $28,616 · Human ServicesAllies for Every Ch…TRAIL LIFE USA INC — $43,565 · Youth DevelopmentTRAIL LIFE U…OUTSIDE THE LENS — $22,616 · Youth DevelopmentOUTSIDE THE …ARRL FOUNDATION INC — $43,565 · PhilanthropyTENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC — $31,360 · AnimalsINSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH — $31,360 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $30,616 · Civil Rights
Other$305,005Human Services$102,789Youth Development$66,181Philanthropy$43,565Animals$31,360Public Benefit$31,360Civil Rights$30,616

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARRL FOUNDATION INC — $43,565 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTRAIL LIFE USA INC — $43,565 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetStater Bros Charities — $42,814 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC — $31,360 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FREE SPEECH — $31,360 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTENNESSEE FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $31,359 over 3y, 12% of budgetAllies for Every Child Inc — $28,616 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOUTSIDE THE LENS — $22,616 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $20,616 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFree Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children — $16,616 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $12,205 over 1y, 0.4% of budget4 PAWS 4 PATRIOTS — $12,205 over 1y, 12% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sempra FoundationCA14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Andrew Kramer Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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