· Private foundation
Cramer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $11,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - LAW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL | $8,900 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES | $4,500 |
| PHILADELPHIA VIP | $4,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NJ | $3,981 |
| CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL | $3,000 |
| THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA | $2,000 |
| CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL | $536 |
| MIND YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - THE GAZETTE | $100 |
| CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL | $40 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +102%
PHILADELPHIA VIP INC8× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +77%
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- PEPENN ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -88%
- JLJENKINS LAW LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $2k
- RCREFORM CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAELone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA VIP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PENN ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Mind Your Brain Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cramer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cramer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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