· Private foundation
Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of CARL L AND GLENDA T CRAMER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SHIPPENSBURG AREA | $10,000 |
| KATIE'S PLACE OF SHIPPENSBURG | $5,000 |
| SHIPPENSBURG AREA LITTLE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| NEWBURG-HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| SHIPPENSBURG POLICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3 | $5,000 |
| VIGILANT HOSE COMPANY #1 | $5,000 |
| NEWBURG FIRST CHURCH OF GOD | $4,000 |
| NEWBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
| CHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS | $3,500 |
| SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE OUTREACH INC | $3,500 |
| CUMBERLAND VALLEY HOST COMPANY #2 | $2,500 |
| SHIPPENSBURG AREA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| SHIPPENSBURG MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SPSHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH7× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +446%
- CACHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS7× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +92%
- VHVigilant Hose Company No 17× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- CVCUMBERLAND VALLEY HOSE COMPANY #2one grant, 2021 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF MEMORIAL PARK POOL INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -58%
- KCKINDLY CANINESone grant, 2019 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To maintain fire control protection for the residents of pennsburg boro and surronding communities
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Fire fighting, rescue and other emergency services
Provides fire protection and ambulance service
The mission of the Chippewa Township VFD is to provide fire services for Chippewa Township, PA, a township with a population of approximately 9,000 people.
The mission of the shippensburg area chamber of commerce is to provide members with services that promote and support economic vitality as well as develop shippensburg as a great place to live, work, play, visit, and invest.
Volunteer fire fighting
We are a volunteer fire company and EMS service to our community. Founded in 1959, our organizations serves over 4,000 homes.
Volunteer fire fighting
Fire & Rescue Company
Volunteer fire company
Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of the Shippensburg Area and the most unlike its peers is Reins of Rhythm Riding & Horsemanship Incr. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 43 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA ↗
- Who funds NEWBURG HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds Vigilant Hose Company No 1 ↗
- Who funds WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3 ↗
- Who funds CIVIC CLUB OF SHIPPENSBURG ↗
- Who funds KATIE'S PLACE OF SHIPPENSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DREW MICHAEL TAYLOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC 2381409 ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ROCK RUN ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds REINS OF RHYTHM RIDING & HORSEMANSHIP INCR ↗
- Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE CARES ↗
- Who funds Cumberland Valley Hose Company No 2 ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MEMORIAL PARK POOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Stewart Alexander Md Fdn Tr Udeed · The United Way of the Shippensburg Area · Partnership for Better Health · Hosfeld R and M K Memorial Ta · Elmer E Naugle Foundation 001531 · Naugle Fdn Ta · The Hub City Club of Shippensburg Pa · Schreiber Foods Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable 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.
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.