Connecticut · Private foundation
Kraus Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $48k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $622k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Kraus Family 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; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $35k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $40k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $50k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $35k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $43k | 37% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $35k | 74% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $32k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Womens Hall of Fame Inc | $87,500 | 9 | 4% |
| Wellesley Theatre Project Inc | $36,800 | 5 | 1% |
| The Chestnut Hill School | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chatham Marconi Maritime Center Inc | $28,500 | 7 | 2% |
| The Rivers School Corporation | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Kingswood Oxford School Inc | $16,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hartford Hospital | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Colgate University | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hartford Interval House Inc | $6,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kraus Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · John and Kelly Hartman Foundation · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Kraus Family Foundation
- How much does Kraus Family Foundation give?
- Kraus Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $47,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kraus Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Education (25%), Health (11%).
- Who are Kraus Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Connecticut Womens Hall of Fame Inc ($88k), Wellesley Theatre Project Inc ($37k), The Chestnut Hill School ($30k).
- Does Kraus Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kraus Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kraus Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation, The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation.
- Where is Kraus Family Foundation based?
- Kraus Family Foundation is based in CT.
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