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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
7
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$65kHealth$35kPhilanthropy$5kAnimals$4kArts & Culture$4kEmployment$4kHuman Services$4kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k28 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$11,000
Breakthrough at Kent Denver$10,000
Wild Animal Sanctuary$2,500
Kids Horses$2,500
Oregon Community Foundation$2,500
Activate Work$2,500
Oregon Symphony$2,000
Planned Parenthood of Rocky Mountai$2,000
Oregon Health Science Univ Foundati$2,000
Oregon Public Broadcasting$2,000
Mile High Ministries$1,604
Nick Bales BTR Foundation$1,500
Warren Village$1,500
Success for All Foundation$1,000
Providence Foundations of Oregon$1,000
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 (FY17–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Assistance League - Greater Portlan: $1k → 8%Stone Soup PDX: $1k → 12%The Denver Hospice: $500 → 12%Raphael House of Portland: $1k → 12%Activate Work: $3k → 12%Warren Village: $2k → 12%Mile High Ministries: $2k → 12%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

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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 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
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
2
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
3
Oregon Research Institute

Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…

Social Science
4
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
8
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
9
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
10
Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education
11
Npr Foundation

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…

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12
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is The Nick Bales Btr Foundation. 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 backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionEducation Equity LeadershipWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Government Accountability R…Classical Music EnsemblesLand Conservation Organizat…Youth Development CentersFood Pantries & AssistanceDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Community Health CentersSubstance Abuse TreatmentHospice Care ServicesCancer Support Organizations
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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%6%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%5%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr13%31%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,383

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

33 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. 33 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $41,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOregon Health Science Univ Foundati — $2,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of Rocky Mountai — $2,000 · Other+10 more — $6,508 · Other+10 moreThe Livestrong Foundation — $25,000 · PhilanthropyThe Livestrong FoundationTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDA…THE NICK BALES BTR FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $2,000 · Philanthropy+2 moreKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $15,000 · EducationKENT DENVER COUNTRY…SKIDMORE COLLEGE — $2,500 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGEDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EducationDENVER SCHOLARSHIP …SUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Education+3 more — $1,225 · Education+3 moreACTIVATE WORK INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesMILE HIGH MINISTRIES — $1,604 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND — $1,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $1,000 · Human ServicesSTONE SOUP PDX — $1,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC — $500 · Human ServicesTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $2,500 · AnimalsOREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC — $1,000 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $903 · AnimalsKIDS AND HORSES INC — $2,500 · HealthLines for Life — $1,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $500 · HealthARAPAHOE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER — $250 · HealthOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $2,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$51,508Philanthropy$31,000Education$22,225Human Services$9,104Animals$4,403Health$4,250Arts & Culture$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS AND HORSES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTIVATE WORK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $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 budgetLines for Life — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DENTAL FOUNDATION OF OREGON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONE SOUP PDX — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE — $903 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF METRO DENVER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $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
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Juan Young TrustThe Reser Family Foun…The Collins FoundationThe Autzen FoundationHillman Family Founda…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Colorado Gives Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
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

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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Stone Soup Pdx — 20% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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