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Lauren Cramer Private Foundation at a glance

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Lauren Cramer Private Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% 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$174kPhilanthropy$77kEducation$63kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$7kHealth$5kSocial Science$3kYouth Development$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$143k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GREENWOOD HISTORIC FUND$8,250
DANSPACE PROJECT$5,000
NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE$5,000
SYMPHONY SPACE$2,000
VINEYARD THEATRE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE: $1k → 20%CHIPS: $500 → 20%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
NM
AL
GA
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$284k · 13 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
22

Total granted

$284k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+74%

Still filing today

77%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $68k · revenue +1%
  • TP
    THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $67k · revenue +369%
  • ND
    NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • C
    CHOATE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SA
    ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN TRUST FOR THE BRITISH LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +175%
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
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
3
New York Shakespeare Festival

As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…

Arts & Culture
4
Move(Nyc) Foundation Inc

Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…

Public Benefit
5
New York City Ballet Inc

Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
7
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
8
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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9
Berggruen Institute
Education
10
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
11
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
12
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Symphony Space Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dyker Heights Athletic Assoc 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

21 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. 21 of the 39 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)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $67,600 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INCNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $60,900 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTETHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $16,300 · Arts & CultureTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INCDance Data Project: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDance Data Project+5 more: $10,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN: $11,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS…CHOATE: $10,000 · OtherCHOATEST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUN…ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL: $8,500 · OtherABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCH…DAD PROJECT: $5,000 · OtherDAD PROJECTSYA: $5,000 · OtherSYACHAMPS: $5,000 · OtherCHAMPSNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL HEALTH: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MEN…Taos Sports Associates Inc: $4,500 · OtherTaos Sports Associates I…+13 more: $12,630 · Other+13 moreTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL: $67,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY WORK…THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $17,500 · EducationTHE BERKELEY…THE AMERICAN TRUST FOR THE BRITISH LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationTHE AMERICAN…Research Foundation of the City University of New York: $10,000 · EducationResearch Fou…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $1,000 · InternationalTHE GOWANUS DREDGERS: $300 · Public Safety & Disaster
Arts & Culture$170,300Other$76,630Philanthropy$67,000Education$38,500Human Services$1,500International$1,000Public Safety & Disaster$300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC: $67,600 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL: $67,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $60,900 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $16,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDance Data Project: $15,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN TRUST FOR THE BRITISH LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANSPACE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTaos Sports Associates Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEW GROUP INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAENA ARTS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOWANUS DREDGERS: $300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Howard Gilman Fou…The Shubert Foundatio…The Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundThe Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
The Howard Gilman Foundation IncNY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Lauren Cramer Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lauren Cramer Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lauren Cramer Private Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lauren Cramer Private 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 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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