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David and Susan Kreisman 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyPublic BenefitReligionAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving27$1.1M30%
FY202319$1.1M16%
FY202213$884k31%
FY202110$1.0M10%
FY202013$637k46%
FY20197$1.1M43%
FY20187$1.1M71%
FY20172$258kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.3MInternational$1.7MArts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$605kReligion$135kPublic Benefit$53kAnimals$39kCivil Rights$13kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago: $3,250,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $1,525,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Better Angels Society Inc: $1,166,667 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $395,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommittee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCarrington Charitable Foundation: $106,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $101,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWindow to the World Communications Inc: $77,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRavinia Festival Association: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCato Institute: $52,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommentary Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBright Promises Foundation: $39,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetDoc Emet Productions Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZionist Organization of America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Housing Services of Chicago Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Negro College Fund Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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About David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation

How much does David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation give?
David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $1,122,417 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), International (24%), Arts & Culture (20%).
Who are David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Chicago ($3.3M), Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($1.5M), The Better Angels Society Inc ($1.2M).
Does David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation based?
David and Susan Kreisman Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 34 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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