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Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$136kHuman Services$109kPhilanthropy$79kReligion$76kRecreation & Sports$69kFood & Nutrition$49kPublic Benefit$33kYouth Development$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3$5,000
NEWBURG-HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY$5,000
SHIPPENSBURG POLICE FOUNDATION$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
CIVIC CLUB OF SHIPPENSBURG$2,500
SHIPPENSBURG AREA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH: $15k → 8%NEWBURG-HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $8k → 8%NEWBURG-HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $5k → 8%NEWBURG-HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $5k → 8%NEWBURG-HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $5k → 8%NEWBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 8%NEWBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 8%NEWBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 8%NEWBURG FIRST CHURCH OF GOD: $5k → 8%NEWBURG FIRST CHURCH OF GOD: $5k → 8%NEWBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 8%NEWBURG-HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $5k → 8%NEWBURG FIRST CHURCH OF GOD: $5k → 8%NEWBURG FIRST CHURCH OF GOD: $5k → 8%NEWBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 8%NEWBURG-HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $5k → 8%NEWBURG-HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $5k → 8%NEWBURG FIRST CHURCH OF GOD: $5k → 8%NEWBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 8%NEWBURG FIRST CHURCH OF GOD: $5k → 8%UNITED WAY OF SHIPPENSBURG AREA: $10k → 8%UNITED WAY OF SHIPPENSBURG AREA: $10k → 8%UNITED WAY OF SHIPPENSBURG AREA: $10k → 8%UNITED WAY OF SHIPPENSBURG AREA: $10k → 8%UNITED WAY OF SHIPPENSBURG AREA: $10k → 8%UNITED WAY OF SHIPPENSBURG AREA: $10k → 8%UNITED WAY OF SHIPPENSBURG AREA: $10k → 8%SHIPPENSBURG AREA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $10k → 8%CHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS: $8k → 8%SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE OUTREACH INC: $8k → 8%VIGILANT HOSE COMPANY #1: $5k → 8%SHIPPENSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 8%CHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS: $5k → 8%SHIPPENSBURG AREA LITTLE LEAGUE: $5k → 8%SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE OUTREACH INC: $5k → 8%WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3: $5k → 8%WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3: $5k → 8%SHIPPENSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 8%WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3: $5k → 8%SHIPPENSBURG AREA LITTLE LEAGUE: $5k → 8%CHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS: $5k → 8%CIVIC CLUB OF SHIPPENSBURG: $5k → 8%SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE OUTREACH INC: $5k → 8%WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3: $5k → 8%KATIE'S PLACE OF SHIPPENSBURG: $5k → 8%SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE OUTREACH INC: $5k → 8%WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3: $5k → 8%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$629k · 32 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
7

Total granted

$629k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+99%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • CA
    CHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +92%
  • SP
    SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH
    7× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +446%
  • WE
    WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3
    7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • CV
    CUMBERLAND VALLEY HOSE COMPANY #2
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MEMORIAL PARK POOL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -58%
  • KC
    KINDLY CANINES
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
Pennsburg Fire Company No 1

To maintain fire control protection for the residents of pennsburg boro and surronding communities

Crime & Legal
2
Penn Volunteer Fire Department

All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

—
3
Shippenville-Elk Twp Volunteer Fire Department

Fire fighting, rescue and other emergency services

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Shepherdstown Fire Department

Provides fire protection and ambulance service

—
5
Chippewa Township Vfd

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Shippensburg Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
7
Mt Penn Fire Company

Volunteer fire fighting

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Stewartsville Chamblissburg Vfc Inc

We are a volunteer fire company and EMS service to our community. Founded in 1959, our organizations serves over 4,000 homes.

—
9
Perkiomen Twp Fire Co No 1

Volunteer fire fighting

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Upper Saucon Vol Fire Dept No 1

Fire & Rescue Company

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Penryn Fire Company 1 Inc

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Lawrence Park Volunteer Fire Department

Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of the Shippensburg Area; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 43 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA: $70,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREAWEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3: $34,500 · OtherWEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3Vigilant Hose Company No 1: $34,500 · OtherVigilant Hose Company No 1NEWBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $34,000 · OtherNEWBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCHNEWBURG FIRST CHURCH OF GOD INC: $34,000 · OtherNEWBURG FIRST CHURCH OF GOD INCCIVIC CLUB OF SHIPPENSBURG: $32,500 · OtherCIVIC CLUB OF SHIPPENSBURGSHIPPENSBURG AREA LITTLE LEAGUE: $25,000 · OtherSHIPPENSBURG AREA LITTLE LEAGUESHIPPENSBURG AREA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · OtherSHIPPENSBURG AREA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INCLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC 2381409: $15,000 · OtherDREW MICHAEL TAYLOR FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Other+23 more: $127,500 · Other+23 moreKATIE'S PLACE OF SHIPPENSBURG INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentREINS OF RHYTHM RIDING & HORSEMANSHIP INCR: $13,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC: $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentNEWBURG HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE: $37,500 · Public Safety & DisasterCHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS: $36,000 · Community ImprovementSHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH: $36,000 · Food & NutritionSHIPPENSBURG AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $16,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthSHIPPENSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $24,500 · Education
Other$448,000Youth Development$47,000Public Safety & Disaster$37,500Community Improvement$36,000Food & Nutrition$36,000Health$32,000Education$24,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA: $70,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetNEWBURG HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE: $37,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS: $36,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetSHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH: $36,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetWEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3: $34,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetVigilant Hose Company No 1: $34,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCIVIC CLUB OF SHIPPENSBURG: $32,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetKATIE'S PLACE OF SHIPPENSBURG INC: $25,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSHIPPENSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $24,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSHIPPENSBURG AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDREW MICHAEL TAYLOR FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC 2381409: $15,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetREINS OF RHYTHM RIDING & HORSEMANSHIP INCR: $13,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetROCK RUN ANIMAL RESCUE: $13,500 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPPENSBURG POLICE FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHAMBERSBURG AND SHIPPENSBURG INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSHIPPENSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCARLISLE CARES: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCumberland Valley Hose Company No 2: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE LIKE LEVI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF THE SHIPPENSBURG AREA ↗
  • Who funds NEWBURG HOPEWELL VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST AMONG NEIGHBORS ↗
  • Who funds SHIPPENSBURG PRODUCE AND OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds WEST END FIRE & RESCUE COMPANY NO 3 ↗
  • Who funds Vigilant Hose Company No 1 ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC CLUB OF SHIPPENSBURG ↗
  • Who funds KATIE'S PLACE OF SHIPPENSBURG INC ↗
  • Who funds SHIPPENSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds SHIPPENSBURG AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds DREW MICHAEL TAYLOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC 2381409 ↗
  • Who funds REINS OF RHYTHM RIDING & HORSEMANSHIP INCR ↗
  • Who funds ROCK RUN ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Stewart Alexander Md …The United Way of the…Partnership for Bette…Hosfeld R and M K Mem…Elmer E Naugle Founda…Naugle Fdn TaThe Hub City Club of …Schreiber Foods Found…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Stewart Alexander Md Fdn Tr UdeedPA32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl L and Glenda T Cramer Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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