· Private foundation
Richard J Kruger 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| REFORM CONGREGATION Keneseth Israel | $3,520 |
| litquake | $1,000 |
| Hiway Theater | $567 |
| earth island | $500 |
| brain research fdn | $500 |
| aclu | $500 |
| anti defamation league | $500 |
| philadelphia museum of art | $500 |
| renfrew eating disorder center | $500 |
| FORGOTTEN CATS INC | $500 |
| Abington Free Library | $500 |
| philabundance | $500 |
| hias | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Philabundance3× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +0%- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2020–2025 · $750 · revenue +14%
WHYY INC2× · 2020–2022 · $200 · revenue +36%
Funded once
- EIEARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE-Borneo projectone grant, 2020 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $39
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.
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.
Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
American psychological association is a national membership organization created to promote the advancement, communication, and application of psychological science and knowledge to benefit society and improve lives. apa fulfills these…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…
Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…
Habitable has a vision that all people and the planet thrive when the materials economy is in balance with nature. our mission is to improve human and environmental health by creating bold, science-based solutions that inspire materials…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ABINGTON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard J Kruger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard J Kruger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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