Skip to content

New York · Private foundation

Kramer 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.

$183k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2025
35
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
30 to 43
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$5.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Kramer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
AnimalsEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving40$183k15%
FY202435$178k6%
FY202342$213k17%
FY202243$194k26%
FY202141$196k32%
FY202030$188k23%
FY201938$216k16%
FY201840$161k38%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$416kHealth$346kArts & Culture$232kInternational$127kAnimals$107kEducation$86kPhilanthropy$83kEmployment$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
AL
TX
FL

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 62 grantees
All grantees of Kramer Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ugc Foundation Inc$165,00098%
Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc$150,00051%
Birthright Israel Foundation$110,50090%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$85,00090%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$59,50050%
Give Kids the World Inc$57,50080%
Mdrc$50,00050%
Breakthrough T1d$40,00040%
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association$35,50050%
Coast Guard Foundation Inc$35,00070%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger$32,00070%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$30,00060%
American Society for Yad Vashem Inc$27,00060%
Friends of Yad Sarah Inc$22,00090%
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc$20,00040%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$15,00030%
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc$14,50060%
Ulster County Spca$14,00060%
Shadow Cats Rescue$12,00060%
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc$12,00060%
Institute for Shipboard Education$10,50080%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$10,00070%
Col Potter Cairn Rescue Network$10,00022%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10,00060%
Northwell Health Foundation$10,00020%
Emancipet Inc$9,00050%
Austin Pets Alive Inc$9,00050%
New Braunfels Community Cat Coalition$7,00045%
Robin Hood Foundation$7,00030%
Building Homes for Heroes Inc$7,00030%
Earthjustice$7,00060%
Chebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Associationinc$7,00020%
Guadalupe County Humane Society$5,50021%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$5,50040%
Family of Woodstock Inc$5,00010%
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc$5,00010%
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc$5,00040%
Animal Rescue Connections$5,00021%
Agricultural Institute of Marin$5,00040%
Soil Health Academy$5,00050%
Cancer Research Institute Inc$4,50020%
Kqed Inc$4,50040%
Women for Women International$4,00030%
Long Island Cares Inc$4,00020%
Rodale Institute$4,00040%
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc$4,00020%
Practical Farmers of Iowa$3,00030%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$2,50020%
Global Fund for Women Inc$2,50020%
Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc$2,50010%
The Humane Society of the New Braunfels Area Inc$2,50010%
United States Fund for Unicef$2,50010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$2,00010%
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc$1,50010%
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc$1,00010%
New College Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Gary Sinise Foundation$1,00010%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation$1,0001n/a
All About Spay Neuter Inc$1,0001n/a
Kiss the Ground$1,00010%
Oceana Inc$1,00010%
The Ocean Foundation$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($454k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kramer Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUgc Foundation Inc: $165,000 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $110,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $85,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $59,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGive Kids the World Inc: $57,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMdrc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Philharmonic Association: $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCoast Guard Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $32,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Yad Sarah Inc: $22,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUlster County Spca: $14,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetShadow Cats Rescue: $12,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Shipboard Education: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCol Potter Cairn Rescue Network: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmancipet Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Pets Alive Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Braunfels Community Cat Coalition: $7,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding Homes for Heroes Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChebra Agudas Achim Chesed Shel Emeth Hebrew Free Burial Associationinc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGuadalupe County Humane Society: $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFamily of Woodstock Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Rescue Connections: $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAgricultural Institute of Marin: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSoil Health Academy: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCancer Research Institute Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomen for Women International: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRodale Institute: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Pbc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPractical Farmers of Iowa: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 60.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Verizon FoundationNJ10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

Compare Kramer Foundation with peer funders

About Kramer Foundation

How much does Kramer Foundation give?
Kramer Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $182,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Kramer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (21%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Kramer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ugc Foundation Inc ($165k), Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc ($150k), Birthright Israel Foundation ($111k).
Does Kramer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kramer 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 Kramer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Verizon Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Kramer Foundation based?
Kramer 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 93 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Kramer’s filings →

More from the funding graph