· Private foundation
Kraus Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT | $20,000 |
| CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RIVERS SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WTWELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +118%
THE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +21%- CMCHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- WFWALKS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +61%
- WTWELLESLEY THEATER PROJECTSone grant, 2020 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Hartford HealthCare's mission is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities it serves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill-Stead Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Stanley Park of Westfield Inc. 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.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 42 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds WELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds WALKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONTMORENCY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL ↗
- Who funds AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STANLEY PARK OF WESTFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Ron Foley Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
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.
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
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 Kraus 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.
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.