Illinois · Private foundation
Draper and Kramer 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.
- $40k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,495
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,085
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 54
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Draper and Kramer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $36k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $47k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $70k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $83k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $82k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $57k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $84k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 53 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $79,003 | 8 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $30,282 | 3 | 0% |
| The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $17,707 | 8 | 0% |
| The Night Ministry | $12,824 | 6 | 0% |
| Blessings in a Backpack Inc | $11,060 | 7 | 0% |
| Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness | $10,228 | 7 | 0% |
| Wear Blue Run to Remember | $10,130 | 3 | 2% |
| March of Dimes Inc | $10,041 | 5 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Inc | $8,508 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 100 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($95k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Draper and Kramer Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
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About Draper and Kramer Foundation
- How much does Draper and Kramer Foundation give?
- Draper and Kramer Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $39,620 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Draper and Kramer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (22%), Health (16%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Draper and Kramer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Chicago Food Depository ($79k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($30k), The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc ($18k).
- Does Draper and Kramer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Draper and Kramer 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 Draper and Kramer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Draper and Kramer Foundation based?
- Draper and Kramer Foundation is based in IL.
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