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Kraus Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Kraus Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$160kEducation$84kHealth$36kReligion$19kHuman Services$10kYouth Development$7kCommunity Improvement$6kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$622k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $10k → 7%RIVERS SCHOOL: $8k → 8%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $3k → 12%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 16%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $5k → 7%RIVERS SCHOOL: $3k → 8%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $3k → 12%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $21k → 12%CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $5k → 7%RIVERS SCHOOL: $3k → 8%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $11k → 12%CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $5k → 7%CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%RIVERS SCHOOL: $3k → 8%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $10k → 12%CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $5k → 7%RIVERS SCHOOL: $3k → 8%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $7k → 12%WELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT: $20k → 7%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $5k → 12%WELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT: $8k → 7%1ST CHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL: $3k → 11%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $5k → 12%WELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT: $4k → 7%1ST CHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL: $3k → 11%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $5k → 12%WELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT: $3k → 7%1ST CHURCH CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL: $3k → 11%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $5k → 12%WELLESLEY THEATER PROJECTS: $3k → 7%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $4k → 12%WELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT: $3k → 7%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $4k → 12%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $3k → 12%CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER: $7k → 8%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $3k → 12%CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER: $5k → 8%CONNECTICUT WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME: $3k → 12%CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER: $5k → 8%CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER: $5k → 8%CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER: $3k → 8%WALKS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%KINGSWOOD-OXFORD SCHOOL: $4k → 11%KINGSWOOD-OXFORD SCHOOL: $4k → 11%KINGSWOOD-OXFORD SCHOOL: $3k → 11%HARTFORD HOSPITAL: $4k → 11%HARTFORD HOSPITAL: $4k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$313k · 25 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

$313k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+32%

Still filing today

68%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WT
    WELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +118%
  • THE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +21%
  • CM
    CHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • WF
    WALKS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +77%
  • WT
    WELLESLEY THEATER PROJECTS
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
University of Hartford

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.

Education
3
The Hospital of Central Connecticut

The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

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…

Philanthropy
5
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

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.

Health
6
Wheaton College

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…

Education
7
The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
8
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc

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.

Health
9
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
12
Hartford HealthCare Corporation

Hartford HealthCare's mission is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities it serves.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill-Stead Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
22/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC: $87,500 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INCWELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT INC: $36,800 · Arts & CultureWELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT INCCHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER INC: $28,500 · Arts & CultureCHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER INC+4 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION: $19,500 · OtherTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION1ST CHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL: $14,000 · Other1ST CHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATI…CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $9,350 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONAURORA FOUNDATION: $7,950 · OtherAURORA FOUNDATIONHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC: $6,000 · OtherHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INCWALKS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherWALKS FOUNDATION INC1ST CHURCH CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL: $5,000 · Other1ST CHURCH CHRIST CONGREGATIONA…+17 more: $26,700 · Other+17 moreTHE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationTHE CHESTNUT HILL S…KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $16,000 · EducationKINGSWOOD OXFORD SC…COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOU…+1 more: $500 · EducationHartford Hospital: $13,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthRon Foley Foundation Inc: $1,000 · HealthJUNIOR LEAGUE OF HARTFORD INC: $5,500 · Community ImprovementAURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Public BenefitTHE STANLEY PARK OF WESTFIELD INC: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$157,300Other$93,500Education$59,500Health$19,000Community Improvement$5,500Public Benefit$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC: $87,500 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetWELLESLEY THEATRE PROJECT INC: $36,800 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHATHAM MARCONI MARITIME CENTER INC: $28,500 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Hospital: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC: $6,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF HARTFORD INC: $5,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWALKS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONTMORENCY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STANLEY PARK OF WESTFIELD INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRon Foley Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILL-STEAD MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELLENIC UNIVERSITY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHATHAM CHORALE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Hartford Foundation f…The Robert & Margaret…The William and Alice…Aetna Foundation IncBurton & Phyllis Hoff…John and Kelly Hartma…Sbm Charitable Founda…Farmington Bank Commu…The Ayco Charitable F…Sandra & Arnold Chase…Rockville Bank Commun…Newalliance Foundatio…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kraus Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kraus Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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