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Douglas and Erika Cramer Private 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.

$13k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
63%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,030
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,286
Organizations funded a year
4 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$381k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
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 arriving7$13k14%
FY202316$20k63%
FY202211$31k73%
FY20217$42k71%
FY20204$23k75%
FY201914$28k64%
FY201810$17k40%
FY201711$20kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$116kPhilanthropy$25kHealth$10kReligion$8kEmployment$6kRecreation & Sports$5kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
NE
WV
DE
DC
LA
GA
TX

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Syracuse University$41,00050%
The Trustees of the Cushing Academy$35,50060%
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$9,03040%
Prospanica$6,00020%
Autism Speaks Inc$5,00010%
Achieve Tahoe$4,55030%
Trips for Kids National$4,00037%
The Battery Foundation$4,00010%
St Ritas Church$3,1004n/a
RepresentUs$1,00010%
Show all 27 grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSyracuse University: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of the Cushing Academy: $35,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWest Virginia University Foundation Inc: $9,030 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetProspanica: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAchieve Tahoe: $4,550 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTrips for Kids National: $4,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetThe Battery Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRepresentUs: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutistry Studios Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Reentry Initiative: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPace University: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFdny Foundation Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Dreams Foundation Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Agricultural Land Trust: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Contemporary Ensemble Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIntegrated Community Services: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelping Hounds Dog Rescue Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJessica's Haven and Rescue: $250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRise Up Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 23.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA10.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation

How much does Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation give?
Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $12,566 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (61%), Philanthropy (13%), Health (5%).
Who are Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Syracuse University ($41k), The Trustees of the Cushing Academy ($36k), West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($9k).
Does Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Douglas and Erika Cramer Private 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 Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation based?
Douglas and Erika Cramer Private Foundation is based in NY.

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 51 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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