Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation Dossiers
Plinth

· Private foundation

Krasnow Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2020
65
Grants FY2020
12
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$200
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MITCHELL FARM EQUINE RETIREMENT$3,000
MITCHELL FARM EQUINE RETIREMENT$2,500
WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$2,300
MEMORIAL SLOAN CANCER CTR$1,000
KRISTINE MANN LIBRARY$1,000
WILTON COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND$1,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$500
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$500
FEEDING AMERICA$500
BLACK HILLS WILD HORSE SANCTUARY$500
Individual grant recipient$500
STAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC$350
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$300
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$300
MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FDN$300
02The need
02

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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WILTON COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND: $1k → 9%STAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC: $350 → 9%STAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC: $150 → 9%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

NH
MN
NY
MA
SD
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA

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
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
2
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
Rainforest Trust

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

International
7
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
8
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…

Animals
9
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
10
Water Environment Federation

WEF's mission is inspiring the water community in pursuit of human and environmental well-being. WEF is a global environmental leader committed to water quality education and technical best practices. WEF connects water professionals;…

Environment
11
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
12
Wamc

Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…

Arts & Culture

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

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%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr20%23%20–35yr14%39%35–55yr15%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr20%41%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr15%26%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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
11%
5,091/46,168

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.

03the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 60 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)
40/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN CANCER CTR — $1,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN CANCER CTRKRISTINE MANN LIBRARY — $1,000 · OtherKRISTINE MANN LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient — $500 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONAL — $500 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $500 · OtherFeeding America — $500 · Other+33 more — $6,300 · Other+33 moreMitchell Farm Equine Retirement Inc — $5,500 · AnimalsMitchell Farm Equine Retirement…INSTITUTE OF THE RANGE & THE AMERICAN MUSTANG — $500 · AnimalsINSTITUTE OF THE RANGE & THE AM…ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $250 · AnimalsSTRAYS & OTHERS INC — $250 · Animals+2 more — $300 · AnimalsWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 · EducationWILTON LIBRA…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $250 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FO…WILTON COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesSTAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC — $500 · Human ServicesHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $300 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $250 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $250 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR — $250 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $200 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $200 · InternationalNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $250 · Civil RightsTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $300 · HealthPROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $250 · HealthNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $200 · Health
Other$10,300Animals$6,800Education$2,750Human Services$1,500International$1,450Civil Rights$750Health$750

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 budgetMitchell Farm Equine Retirement Inc — $5,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILTON COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE OF THE RANGE & THE AMERICAN MUSTANG — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ FORUM ARTS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRAYS & OTHERS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELM PROJECT — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF WILTON INC — $150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANIMALS IN DISTRESS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilton Land Conservation Trust — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN MOUNTED TROOP INC — $50 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.

Alexander Family Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…The Dawn and Jeff Pad…Viking Global Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Shames Family Foundat…Perakis Foundation Ja…Elizabeth Raymond Amb…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…
Alexander Family Foundation IncCT19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alexander Family Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Dawn and Jeff Padovan Family Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Shames Family Foundation · Perakis Foundation James Perakis Trustee · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Krasnow 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Wilton Library Association Inc — 0% of income from government
  • New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
6report 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, 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Krasnow Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Krasnow Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 60 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home