· Private foundation
Garnetta Kramer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wilmette Dental Institute | $20,000 |
| Josephinum Academy | $20,000 |
| Society of the Sacred Heart | $10,000 |
| Regina Dominican High School | $10,000 |
| Gift of Adoption Funds | $5,000 |
| Little Sisters of the PoorSt Marys Home | $5,000 |
| Oakton College Educational Foundation | $5,000 |
| Center for Working Families | $5,000 |
| Michigan Shores Club Foundation | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Garnetta Kramer Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garnetta Kramer Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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