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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 FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$416kHealth$346kArts & Culture$232kInternational$127kAnimals$107kEducation$86kPhilanthropy$83kEmployment$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $102k
$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Birthright Israel Foundation$25,000
UGC Foundation$25,000
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$12,000
Los Angeles Philharmonic$10,000
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$10,000
JDRF$10,000
Jewish Historical Society$10,000
Give Kids the World$8,000
Family of New Paltz$5,000
Mid-Island Y JCC - Special Needs Program$5,000
Coast Guard Foundation$5,000
Dogs Inc$5,000
LCF Educational Foundation$4,500
CARE$3,000
Guadalupe Country Humane Society$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Dogs Inc: $5k → 10%Long Island Cares: $2k → 7%Sunrise Association: $60k → 6%Long Island Cares: $2k → 7%Sunrise Association: $60k → 6%Sunrise Association: $10k → 6%Sunrise Association: $10k → 6%Sunrise Association: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 70 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
17

Total granted

$1.6M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+27%

Still filing today

67%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
AnimalsHealthInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • SD
    SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $150k · revenue +6%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +9%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • NL
    NorthShore LIJ Health Systen Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • FO
    FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +20%
  • 2H
    2 Hands 4 Paws Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

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.

2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
10
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ugc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Braunfels Community Cat Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal Food System Organizat…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsCancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,698

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.

04the grantee network

62 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 93 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
43/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Jewish Federation of Sarasota — $72,000 · OtherJewish Federation of SarasotaGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC — $57,500 · OtherGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INCPolycystic Kidney Disease Foundation — $40,000 · OtherJewish Historical Society — $35,000 · OtherNational Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation — $35,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $32,000 · OtherNational September 11 Memorial & Museum — $30,000 · OtherMake-A-Wish Foundation — $27,000 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $59,500 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONMDRC — $50,000 · OtherMDRCCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Other+43 more — $297,000 · Other+43 moreUGC FOUNDATION INC — $165,000 · PhilanthropyUGC FOUNDATI…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $7,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $4,500 · PhilanthropyThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $85,000 · Arts & CultureThe United …LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION — $35,500 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES…AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC — $27,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SO…SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $14,500 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESE…+1 more — $4,500 · Arts & CultureSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY…+3 more — $11,000 · Human Services+3 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $40,000 · HealthBREAKTHROU…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $30,000 · HealthNATIONAL M…FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC — $22,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF…SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · HealthSARASOTA M…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CH…NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthNORTHWELL …FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $6,000 · HealthBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $110,500 · InternationalBIRTHRIGH…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $5,500 · International+3 more — $9,000 · International+3 moreULSTER COUNTY SPCA — $14,000 · AnimalsSHADOW CATS RESCUE — $12,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC — $12,000 · AnimalsCOL POTTER CAIRN RESCUE NETWORK — $10,000 · AnimalsEMANCIPET INC — $9,000 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC — $9,000 · AnimalsGUADALUPE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,500 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONS — $5,000 · Animals+2 more — $3,500 · Animals
Other$770,000Philanthropy$176,500Arts & Culture$166,500Human Services$161,000Health$148,000International$135,000Animals$80,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 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 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 budgetCHEBRA AGUDAS ACHIM CHESED SHEL EMETH HEBREW FREE BURIAL ASSOCIATIONINC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUADALUPE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE CONNECTIONS — $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOIL HEALTH ACADEMY — $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRodale Institute — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 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 budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 UGC FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC
  • Who funds MDRC
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC
  • Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds ULSTER COUNTY SPCA
  • Who funds SHADOW CATS RESCUE
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC

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.

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

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 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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