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Kramer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k19 grants · $490k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION SMILE INC | $60,000 |
| CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE | $50,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RSRCH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO CATHOLIC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $35,000 |
| MIDNIGHT MISSION | $30,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| BLIND CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER | $30,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $30,000 |
| SAN CLEMENTE MILITARY FAMILY OUTREACH | $30,000 |
| HIGH HOPES NEUROLOGICAL RECOVERY GROUP | $30,000 |
| WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION INC | $30,000 |
| SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2020–2024 · $259k · revenue +106%
- OSOPERATION SMILE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +14%
Mercy Ships International5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- CFCARECHOICES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $25k
- LCLUTHERAN CHURCH - MISSOURI SYNODone grant, 2020 · $25k
- ASABIDING SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.
Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…
The rescue mission alliance's primary purpose is to establish and operate rescue missions to reach the less fortunate with the gospel of jesus christ and to assist in the feeding, clothing, and lodging of those who are destitute or…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
To improve the health and well-being of individuals, families and our communities, by benefiting, performing the functions of and carrying out the purposes of the nonprofit, tax-exempt hospitals and other healthcare providers of which the…
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical center is a member of trinity health.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Orange County and the Inland Empire Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tesoro Choral Boosters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 37 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT MISSION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds High Hopes Neurological Recovery Group ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAN CLEMENTE MILITARY FAMILY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE ↗
- Who funds Age Well Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS CANYON RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds TUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Tesoro Choral Boosters ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WINTER SPORTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Working Wardrobes For A New Start ↗
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: Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Oneoc · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Kramer Family 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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.
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