· Private foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Project Opportunity | $100,000 |
| University of Iowa Center for Advancement | $50,000 |
| Manna Storehouse | $30,000 |
| Weatherford ISD Education Foundation | $30,000 |
| Edna Gladney Center for Adoption | $25,000 |
| American Red Cross | $25,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $15,000 |
| Telluride Medical Center | $10,000 |
| JAMES AND DOROTHY DOSS HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER OF PARKER COUNTY | $7,500 |
| Folds of Honor | $5,000 |
| Heart of Eli Scholarship Fund | $5,000 |
| Trinity Habitat For Humanity | $5,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $540k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Kramer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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; $55k 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
- WIWEATHERFORD ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +51% · 30% of their budget
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +39%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- MCMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue +1%
- TGTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTIONone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +22%
- USUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +219%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To honor through education and historic preservation the people who have served and are servicing the naval and maritime traditions of our nation.
The mission of the folded flag foundation is to provide scholarships and educational support grants to the spouses and children of the united states military and government personnel who died as a result of hostile action or in an accident…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, and other severe injuries.the intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury,…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…
The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…
The uss missouri memorial association is dedicated to preserving the battleship missouri and sharing her story and place in history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Telluride Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 28 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 MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEATHERFORD ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANNA STOREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TELLURIDE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES AND DOROTHY DOSS HERITAGE AND CULTURE CENTER OF PARKER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE ART STATION ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EXPRESS BASKETBALL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LILY B CLAYTON PTA ↗
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.
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.