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Kramer Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$58k
Granted FY2022
30
Grants FY2022
29
Organizations funded FY2022
93%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 29
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
7
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 93% of the organizations Kramer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsHealthArts & CultureOther
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
FY202229$55k93%
FY20214$16k75%
FY20201$20k100%
FY20192$5k100%
FY20181$25k100%
FY20176$3kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$65kHealth$35kPhilanthropy$5kAnimals$4kArts & Culture$4kEmployment$4kHuman Services$4kReligion$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
NV
CA
CO
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), 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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKent Denver Country Day School: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids and Horses Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetActivate Work Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDenver Scholarship Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSkidmore College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Symphony Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Public Broadcasting: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMile High Ministries: $1,604 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWarren Village Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nick Bales Btr Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetRaphael House of Portland: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssistance League of Greater Portland: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSuccess for All Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln County Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Coast Aquarium Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLines for Life: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStone Soup Pdx: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dental Foundation of Oregon: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Dumb Friends League: $903 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Metro Denver Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKhan Academy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoccer Without Borders: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArapahoe Mental Health Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Botanic Gardens Inc: $2 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 30.

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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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR17.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Kramer Foundation

How much does Kramer Foundation give?
Kramer Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $57,509 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Kramer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (52%), Health (28%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are Kramer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: The Livestrong Foundation ($25k), Kent Denver Country Day School ($15k), The Wild Animal Sanctuary ($3k).
Does Kramer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 93% 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 The Oregon Community Foundation, Juan Young Trust, The Reser Family Foundation.
Where is Kramer Foundation based?
Kramer Foundation is based in CO.

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 41 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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