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Cramer Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEDERATED YOUTH FOUNDATION INC | $45,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PRAIRIE RIDGE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $10,000 |
| PAVE | $10,000 |
| CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
| FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| MEDECINS SAN FRONTIERES USA INC (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS) | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Cramer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- FYFEDERATED YOUTH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $625k · revenue +156%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue +78%
- UWUNITED WAY OF DODGE COUNTY INC6× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +11%
Funded once
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +67%- BDBEAVER DAM COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +19%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.
Deaconess clinic was organized exclusively for charitable, education, and scientific program purposes within the meaning of section 501(c((3) of the irs code which include (among others):to deliver health care to the public; to carry out…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To provide quality, accessible primary health care services to all children in our community, advocate for the well-being of all children, educate children, families, health care professionals and our community regarding the health of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beaver Dam Community Hospitals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 22 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 FEDERATED YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DODGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE RIDGE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER DAM COMMUNITY HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN VALLEY ENTERPRISES INC OF BEAVER DAM ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE RIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE AGAINST A VIOLENT ENVIRONMENT IN ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER DAM COMMUNITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: The Peter J Seippel Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Duane and Kathleen Foulkes Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · 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 Cramer Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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