· Private foundation
Garnetta Kramer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Josephinum Academy | $20,000 |
| Wilmette Dental Institute | $20,000 |
| Regina Dominican High School | $10,000 |
| Society of the Sacred Heart | $10,000 |
| Oakton College Educational Foundation | $5,000 |
| Gift of Adoption Funds | $5,000 |
| Little Sisters of the PoorSt Marys Home | $5,000 |
| Center for Working Families | $5,000 |
| Michigan Shores Club Foundation | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC2× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +8%- TMTHE MICHIGAN SHORES CLUB FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +42%
- HAHoward Area Community Center2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- SFSt Francis XavierSt Joesone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
- HEHoward & Evanston Community Centerone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…
To build a secure and hopeful today so children facing health issues and poverty succeed tomorrow.
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
CASA of Cook County's vision is to protect abused and neglected children by providing them in court, a safe and permanent home, and an opportunity to grow, learn and thrive.
Christopher house is a family of schools that helps children and families succeed in school, the workplace, and life. through our unique and innovative approach, we are effectively closing the opportunity gap through a continuum of…
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.
JCFS Chicago services and programs support wellbeing for children, teens, adults and families regardless of race, culture, religion, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, or…
To provide a variety of programs in the chicago area to help children, parents, and adults achieve greater inner well-being, sustain closer relationships, and have more pleasurable family, school, and work lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Open Studio Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 30 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 CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHIGAN SHORES CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHICAGO ST MARY'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Howard Area Community Center ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Crisis Center for South Suburbia ↗
- Who funds GENESIS AT THE CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN STUDIO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Hall ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALTUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PARENTING FOR NON VIOLENCE ↗
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: WP & HB White Foundation · The Valerye H McCarthy Charitable Foundation · Mary V Duffy Charitable Foundation · Harry F Chaddick and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Inc · Helen V Brach Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Enchanted Backpack · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Fred J Brunner 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 Garnetta Kramer Charitable 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.
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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