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Steven M & Betsy S Kramer Family Foundation Inc

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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Human Services$19kReligion$14kEducation$14kCommunity Improvement$6kCrime & Legal$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHealth$2kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$432k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs Inc$4,731
Hebrew Order of David Foundation Inc$3,000
World Jewish Congress American Section$2,000
Fraternal Order of Eagles$2,000
National Jewish Advocacy Center$2,000
Danbury High School$2,000
Jewish Education Loan Fund$2,000
Jewish Interest-Free Loan Association of Georgia$2,000
No Kid Hungry (Share Our Strength)$1,000
Smile Train Inc$1,000
Congregation Gesher L'Torah at the NFJC$1,000
Jewish Family & Career Services$1,000
Camp Yavneh$1,000
Home School Legal Defense Association$1,000
Chabad of George Washington University (Jewish GW)$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Jewish Interest-Free Loan Association of Georgia: $2k → 14%Jewish Family & Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family & Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family & Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family & Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family & Career Services: $1k → 14%Jewish Family & Career Services: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
MA
CT
VA
MD
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$59k · 13 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
4

Total granted

$59k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+121%

Still filing today

62%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalReligionOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +144%
  • BENTLEY UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +31%
  • HS
    HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
    one grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • JI
    JEWISH INTEREST FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIAgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue +121%
  • NJ
    NATIONAL JEWISH ADVOCACY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue ×12

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

2
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
3
Jlens

Jlens empowers investors to align their capital with jewish values and advocates for jewish communal priorities in the corporate arena. (see sch. o)jlens promotes investing through a jewish lens and aims to increase the jewish community's…

Religion
4
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
5
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
6
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

7
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Hillel's mission is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.

Religion
8
Young Judaea Global Inc

Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.

Education
9
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
10
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…

Philanthropy
11
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.…

Arts & Culture
12
Jewish Institute for National Security of America

The jewish institute for national security of america (jinsa) was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing u.s. national security interests in the middle east, of which a critical pillar is a robust…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Jewish Congress (American Section) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bentley University. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Hebrew Order of David Foundation Inc — $10,800 · OtherHebrew Order of David Foundation IncDanbury High School — $8,000 · OtherDanbury High SchoolFEDERATION OF JEWISH MENS CLUBS INC — $6,081 · OtherFEDERATION OF JEWISH MENS CLUBS INCCongregation Gesher L'Torah at the NFJC — $6,000 · OtherCongregation Gesher L'Torah at the NFJCSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $3,332 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHHOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION — $2,999 · OtherHOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATIONChabad of George Washington University (Jewish GW) — $2,333 · OtherFRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES — $2,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC — $2,000 · OtherCAMP YAVNEH INC — $2,000 · OtherNATIONAL JEWISH ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $2,000 · OtherJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC — $2,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY…JEWISH INTEREST FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA — $2,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH INTERE…WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $4,000 · ReligionBENTLEY UNIVERSITY — $4,000 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,332 · International
Other$49,545Human Services$8,000Religion$4,000Education$4,000International$1,332

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $3,332 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION — $2,999 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP YAVNEH INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,332 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC
  • Who funds WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC
  • Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH
  • Who funds HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
  • Who funds JEWISH INTEREST FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds CAMP YAVNEH INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH ADVOCACY CENTER INC
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Steven M & Betsy S Kramer Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Bentley University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Steven M & Betsy S Kramer Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Steven M & Betsy S Kramer Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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