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Andrew Kramer Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Corona Unified Soccer Club$12,500
Cheekwood Society Nature Reserve$12,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against -65% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • TL
    TRAIL LIFE USA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $44k · revenue +151%
  • AF
    ARRL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $44k · revenue +207%

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

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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…

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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arrl Foundation Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 IncCheekwood Society Nature Reserve: $12,500 · OtherCorona Unified Soccer Club: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRAIL LIFE USA INC: $43,565 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetARRL FOUNDATION INC: $43,565 over 4y, 1.2% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sempra FoundationThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Andrew Kramer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andrew Kramer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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