· Private foundation
Gram Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS | $15,000 |
| BLACK MEN TEACH | $7,500 |
| APPETITE FOR CHANGE | $5,000 |
| 906 ADVENTURE TEAM | $5,000 |
| ALGER COUNTY 4-H | $5,000 |
| NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE | $5,000 |
| M-PACKS - MUNISING PUBLIC SCHOOLS (VIA ALGER REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION) | $5,000 |
| AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $3,000 |
| ISPACE | $3,000 |
| OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER | $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 (FY17–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- CFCROSSROADS FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +167%
- CACRAYONS AND BEYOND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +45%
- IIISPACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- LFLITERATURE FOR ALL OF USone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -75%
- ODOUR DAILY BREAD INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +51%
- LNLITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +155%
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.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.
Empowering under-resourced families to change their lives by discovering and overcoming barriers to success.
To eliminate hunger and food insecurity in our community by increasing access to food and necessities for those who need it most within the city of dublin and dublin school district. the dublin food pantry relies on community partnerships,…
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
Advancing Nonprofits is committed to strengthening the organizational health and support long-term development of small nonprofits on Chicagos west and south sides while prioritizing Black- and Latine-led community organizations.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons and Beyond Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our Daily Bread Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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 CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds ISPACE INC ↗
- Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOING GOOD TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Youthprise ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds LITERATURE FOR ALL OF US ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds 906 ADVENTURE TEAM ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Gram 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.