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M Jay Kramer Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

M Jay Kramer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35k
Granted FY2020
17
Grants FY2020
7
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

11
’17
13
’18
15
’19
15
’20
6
’21
5
’22
4
’23
5
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$139kEducation$32kArts & Culture$25kHousing & Shelter$23kCivil Rights$22kRecreation & Sports$19kCommunity Improvement$19kSocial Science$18kOther$0
02FY2020 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$838k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brooklyn Prospect Charter School$3,000
Democratic Socialists of America Fu$3,000
Sunrise Movement Edu Fund$3,000
PS11 Brooklyn$3,000
Transportation Alternatives$3,000
Oscar Ichazo Foundation$3,000
National Network of Abortion Funds$2,000
Make the Road New York$2,000
350org$2,000
Kings County Tennis League$2,000
Ali Forney Center$2,000
Henry Street Settlement$2,000
Puente Human Rights Movement$1,000
CHIRLA$1,000
Jacobin Foundation$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Henry Street Settlement: $2k → 17%Jacobin Foundation: $1k → 20%Jacobin Foundation: $1k → 20%Jacobin Foundation: $1k → 20%Jacobin Foundation: $1k → 20%Jacobin Foundation: $1k → 20%Jacobin Foundation: $1k → 20%Jacobin Foundation: $1k → 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

NY
PA
CT
CA
AZ
NC
DC
HI
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 18 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +153% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$183k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+153%
0%

Still filing today

78%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Crime & LegalEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • KC
    KINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +393%
  • TA
    TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +9%
  • DS
    DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA FUND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • RI
    ROSES IN CONCRETE
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -1%
  • BC
    BROOKLYN CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • PT
    PICTURE THE HOMELESS
    one grant, 2017 · $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
Legal Services Nyc

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…

Crime & Legal
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
3
Communities Resist Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy
5
Community Development Project Inc

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.

Community Improvement
6
Brooklyn Legal Services Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Co-Counsel Nyc Inc

To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
9
Center for Constitutional Rights

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…

Civil Rights
10
Federal Defenders of New York Inc

The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.

Crime & Legal
11
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
12
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 33 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $138,500 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONOSCAR ICHAZO FOUNDATION: $21,000 · OtherOSCAR ICHAZO FOUNDATIONTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $19,000 · OtherTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INCPS11 Brooklyn: $13,000 · OtherPS11 BrooklynROSES IN CONCRETE: $9,000 · OtherROSES IN CONCRETENEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION: $8,000 · OtherNEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATIONGROW: $7,500 · OtherGROWSunrise Movement Edu Fund: $6,000 · OtherBROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherBROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOLHOUSING WORKS INC: $7,000 · OtherHOUSING WORKS INCCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $6,000 · Other+11 more: $23,000 · Other+11 moreSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $8,000 · Crime & LegalKIND INC: $6,000 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $4,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New York: $2,000 · Crime & LegalBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalKINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE: $19,000 · Recreation & SportsDEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA FUND INC: $18,087 · Social ScienceJACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $7,000 · Human ServicesPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $6,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2,000 · Human ServicesALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $13,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$138,500Other$129,500Crime & Legal$22,000Recreation & Sports$19,000Social Science$18,087Human Services$15,000Housing & Shelter$13,000

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 budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $138,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE: $19,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA FUND INC: $18,087 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROSES IN CONCRETE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING WORKS INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKIND INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON SCHOOL PARENT ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG VOICES BIG SOUNDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Open Society InstituteTides FoundationThe Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
Open Society InstituteNY17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 M Jay Kramer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M Jay Kramer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 33 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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