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Milton a & Charlotte R Kramer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES HEALTHY DEMOCRACY FUND | $300,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND | $150,000 |
| STRAY CAT ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PUBLIC COUNSEL IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS PROJECT | $25,000 |
| WAGMOR PETS | $10,000 |
| TGI JUSTICE PROJECT | $7,000 |
| POOR MAGAZINE | $6,200 |
| COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS | $6,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $5,250 |
| UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB | $5,000 |
| WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Milton a & Charlotte R Kramer Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 9 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2017–2023 · $652k · revenue +98%- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA2× · 2019–2020 · $500k · revenue +15%
PUBLIC COUNSEL6× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- CLCASE LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $500k
- SASYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -39%
- SSSHOEMAKER SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $100k
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Wagmor Pets. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 150 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds POOR MAGAZINE INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING IN OHIO ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB ↗
- Who funds STRAY CAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK 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: Emma R Fox Char Trust Mut Fds · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · A Malachi Mixon III & Barbara W Mixon Foundation · Jane and Jon Outcalt Foundation · Treu Mart Fund · Willow Redistribution Foundation · Tides Center
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 Milton a & Charlotte R Kramer Charitable 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.
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Mattapan Community Health Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Charles River Community Health Inc — 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Dothouse Health Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
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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