· Private foundation
Louise Kramer Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT HOTEL OPERATING | $50,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $30,000 |
| DECA | $30,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF MIAMI V | $20,000 |
| HOUSE OF BREAD | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DAYTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| VICTORY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER | $10,000 |
| NEW HOPE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FOODBANK INC | $10,000 |
| LEARN TO EARN DAYTON | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Teach for America Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $270k · revenue +1%- UOUniversity of Dayton7× · 2018–2024 · $174k · revenue +27%
- DSDAKOTA STREET CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $139k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
To promote community by nuturing children and empowering familites in a christian environment by providing childcare services and supportive services for families.
To provide social services to those in need, focusing on nine areas: behavioral health, family stabilization & success, guardianship, hispanic outreach, pregnancy & parenting, refugee resettlement, services for older adults, supervised…
To provide quality home health services to infants, children, and young adults. the care provided will be coordinated, comprehensive, and family centered to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the children and their…
To eliminate hunger and food insecurity in our community by increasing access to food and necessities for those who need it most within the city of dublin and dublin school district. the dublin food pantry relies on community partnerships,…
In response to jesus christ, graceworks lutheran services helps people experience dignity and wholeness in relationship with god, family and community.
Daybreak saves young lives by demonstrating love and bringing hope for their future.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
Ronald mcdonald house charities of dayton's mission is to provide community, comfort, and hope to families of seriously ill children.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
St. david's center is a regional leader in child development, reaching 8,000 young children with developmental delays and emerging mental health concerns annually. its mission is to build relationships that nurture the development of every…
The hospice of dayton, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability to pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards. our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dayton Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Family Service Association 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 50 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 49 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 Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD ↗
- Who funds ST MARY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK INC ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORY PROJECT LLC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DAYTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS ↗
- Who funds The Learning Tree Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Service Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MIAMI VALLEY MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds LEARN TO EARN DAYTON ↗
- Who funds AIR CAMP INC ↗
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: Mathile Family Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · The Berry Family Foundation · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Cpps Heritage Mission Fund · Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Frank M Tait Foundation · The Fred and Alice Wallace Charitable Memorial Foundation
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 Louise Kramer 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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