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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$438k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$19,000
APPLE TREE INSTITUTE$15,000
NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE$12,500
FASPE$5,000
UPHA INC$5,000
THE DOOR$2,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$2,000
NEMHS$1,500
CONNECTICUT ASSOC$1,200
NEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
CAST$300
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $90) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%KNOCK KNOCK GIVE A SOCK: $90 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
UT
CO
KY
VA
DC
OK
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$335k · 16 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
17

Total granted

$335k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+5%

Still filing today

56%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsCrime & LegalHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NN
    NAMI National
    2× · 2024–2025 · $69k · revenue +181%
  • JA
    JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $53k · revenue ×23
  • NY
    NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • FP
    FRANKLIN PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • C4
    CENTAURS 4H HORSE CLUB OF HUNTERDON
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
2
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…

Arts & Culture
3
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc

To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.

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4
Studio in a School Association Inc

From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.

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5
Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement

The mission of third street music school settlement is to provide access to music and dance education to new yorkers of all ages.

Arts & Culture
6
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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7
Bloomingdale School of Music

To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.

Arts & Culture
8
New World Symphony Inc

Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.

Education
9
New York School of the Arts Inc

New york school of the arts, inc. is a school offering courses and specialized workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture,printmaking,art theory and other subjects.

Education
10
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance

Kaufman music center stimulates appreciation of and participation in music through music performance and education in ways that awaken creativity, advance innovation, and create a sense of wonder among performers, students, teachers, and…

Arts & Culture
11
Move(Nyc) Foundation Inc

Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…

Public Benefit
12
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; the most unlike its peers is Knock Knock Give a Sock. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INCINTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE F…NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $31,600 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTEFRANKLIN PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRANKLIN PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INCTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEMS: $29,197 · OtherMT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEMSTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $25,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONTAPPLE TREE INSTITUTE: $16,500 · OtherAPPLE TREE INSTITUTEUPHA INC: $13,000 · OtherUPHA INCCENTAURS 4H HORSE CLUB OF HUNTERDON: $10,000 · OtherCENTAURS 4H HORSE CLUB OF HUNTERDONFASPE: $8,000 · OtherFASPENEW UTRECHT HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $5,000 · Other+11 more: $18,350 · Other+11 moreNAMI National: $69,000 · HealthNAMI NationalJOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC: $52,500 · HealthJOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INCEVOKE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $6,276 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR ITALIAN ART AND CULTURE-: $2,000 · EducationLEARNINGSPRING SCHOOL: $1,750 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationNEXUS EQUINE INC: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $2,750 · Crime & LegalKNOCK KNOCK GIVE A SOCK: $90 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$139,100Other$130,047Health$128,000Education$10,276Animals$5,000Crime & Legal$2,750Human Services$90

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 F…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Paypal Charitable Giv…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kimberly Cramer Germ Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Franklin Performing Arts Company Inc: 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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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