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Kimberly Cramer Germ Private 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.

$65k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
56%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$19,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$438k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving11$65k36%
FY20249$87k56%
FY20237$85k71%
FY20227$27k71%
FY20213$7k33%
FY20204$25k75%
FY20197$61k57%
FY20187$28k0%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$181kArts & Culture$141kEducation$40kSocial Science$17kRecreation & Sports$12kAnimals$5kYouth Development$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
UT
CO
KY
VA
DC
OK

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNAMI National: $69,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJohnnys Ambassadors Inc: $52,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNew York Stage and Film Inc: $47,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetInternational Contemporary Ensemble Foundation Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNational Dance Institute: $31,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFranklin Performing Arts Company Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $6,276 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvoke Family Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetThe Harmony Program Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNexus Equine Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Italian Art and Culture-: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLearningspring School: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Youth Symphony Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Green-Wood Historic Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoar Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSound Business Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKnock Knock Give a Sock: $90 over 1y, 0.0% 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 19.

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation

How much does Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation give?
Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $64,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Arts & Culture (34%), Education (10%).
Who are Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: NAMI National ($69k), Johnnys Ambassadors Inc ($53k), New York Stage and Film Inc ($48k).
Does Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kimberly Cramer Germ 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 Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation based?
Kimberly Cramer Germ 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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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