· Private foundation
M Jay Kramer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of M Jay Kramer Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The San Francisco Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year M Jay Kramer Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $35k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Brooklyn Prospect Charter School | $3,000 |
| Democratic Socialists of America Fu | $3,000 |
| Sunrise Movement Edu Fund | $3,000 |
| PS11 Brooklyn | $3,000 |
| Oscar Ichazo Foundation | $3,000 |
| Transportation Alternatives | $3,000 |
| National Network of Abortion Funds | $2,000 |
| Make the Road New York | $2,000 |
| 350org | $2,000 |
| Henry Street Settlement | $2,000 |
| Kings County Tennis League | $2,000 |
| Ali Forney Center | $2,000 |
| Puente Human Rights Movement | $1,000 |
| CHIRLA | $1,000 |
| Jacobin Foundation | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +153% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- KCKINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +393%
- TATRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +9%
- DSDEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA FUND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- RIROSES IN CONCRETEone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -1%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +37%- BCBROOKLYN CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2017 · $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.
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
We join our clients in the struggle to organize, assert their rights and protect their homes. we work to ensure that community voices are centered in the decisions that impact their lives and neighborhoods.
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.
Brooklyn legal services, inc is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york city area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.
Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…
The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. 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.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROSES IN CONCRETE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds PUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds Western Pennsylvania Fund for Choic ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds BEACON SCHOOL PARENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG VOICES BIG SOUNDS 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: Open Society Institute · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving 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 M Jay 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.