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Kramer Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$546kHuman Services$92kEducation$55kPublic Benefit$28kYouth Development$16kAnimals$14kArts & Culture$13kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$9,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$50,000
VALLEY OF THE SUNUNITED WAY$10,000
VETERANS FIRST$9,800
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS$9,800
SOJOURNER CENTER$9,800
FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION$9,800
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$9,800
Individual grant recipient$8,000
SHEMER ART CENTER$6,000
RIM COUNTRY HOSPICE FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–24, $44k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%Fresh Start Womans Foundation: $5k → 11%Fresh Start Womans Foundation: $5k → 11%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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$691k · 12 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$691k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+103%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $381k · revenue +100%
  • FS
    FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $44k · revenue +85%
  • SC
    SOJOURNER CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • WH
    WOMENS HEALTH INNOVATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
2
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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3
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
6
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
7
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
8
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
9
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

—
10
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
11
Startup Tucson

Working to transform the region's economy through entrepreneurship and innovation.

Community Improvement
12
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Rim Country Hospice Foundation. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $381,388 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,000 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $61,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWOMENS HEALTH INNOVATION: $50,000 · OtherWOMENS HEALTH INNOVATIONCIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $32,800 · OtherCIRCLE OF FRIENDSSHEMER ART CENTER: $29,000 · OtherSHEMER ART CENTERRim Country Hospice Foundation: $19,000 · OtherRim Country Hospice FoundationShermer Art Center: $12,500 · OtherShermer Art CenterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $9,800 · Other+4 more: $10,500 · OtherFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $43,800 · Human ServicesFRESH STAR…SOJOURNER CENTER: $27,800 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER …Teach for America Inc: $45,000 · EducationVETERANS FIRST LIMITED: $20,800 · Public BenefitArizona Humane Society: $11,000 · AnimalsVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $6,500 · Youth Development
Health$386,388Other$224,600Human Services$71,600Education$45,000Public Benefit$20,800Animals$11,000Philanthropy$10,000Youth Development$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $381,388 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $43,800 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $27,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS FIRST LIMITED: $20,800 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetRim Country Hospice Foundation: $19,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty Wildlife Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS FIRST LIMITED ↗
  • Who funds Rim Country Hospice Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Liberty Wildlife Inc ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Kramer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kramer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–20%
    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.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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