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Terry and Suzan Kramer Family Foundation at a glance

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Terry and Suzan Kramer Family 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.

$42k
Granted FY2020
19
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

58% of Terry and Suzan Kramer Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Ucla Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Terry and Suzan Kramer Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $42k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$361kReligion$22kSocial Science$21kYouth Development$19kHuman Services$16kArts & Culture$4kEmployment$4kPublic Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2020 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k17 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$551k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$10,000
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE$10,000
CHILDRENS SUPPORT LEAGUE OF THE EAST BAY INC$5,000
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE$2,500
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES$2,500
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES$2,500
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$1,065
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$1,000
PARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC$1,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$1,000
HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT$1,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$1,000
STRIVE FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION$1,000
THE CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN INSTITUTE FOR DISRUPTIVE$500
LANTERN PROJECTS INC$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $500 → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 10%GRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $500 → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $3k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $3k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%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

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IL
NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 42% of Terry and Suzan Kramer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Terry and Suzan Kramer Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 20 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 24 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

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Total granted

$160k
$250

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+60%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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

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EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +49%
  • LS
    Larkin Street Youth Services
    5× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +90%
  • OP
    OAKLAND PROMISE
    3× · 2019–2023 · $5k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • AL
    ALEX LIVINGSTON SCHOLARSHIP FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue +60%
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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
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The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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Limmud Bay Area

Provide jewish education and cultural services to the jewish community of the s.f. bay area

Religion
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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
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California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
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The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
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Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
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Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
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Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Piedmont Beautification Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
26/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION: $282,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $70,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE+6 more: $8,500 · EducationHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $21,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS…TEMPLE SINAI: $17,200 · OtherTEMPLE SINAICHILDRENS SUPPORT LEAGUE OF THE EAST BAY: $10,000 · OtherCHILDRENS SUPPOR…FIRST HEBREW CONGREGATION OF OAKLAND CALIF: $8,600 · OtherFIRST HEBREW CON…+20 more: $10,618 · Other+20 moreLarkin Street Youth Services: $17,500 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesSTRIVE FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $3,750 · PhilanthropyLANTERN PROJECTS INC LANTERN PROJECTS: $1,750 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $500 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $250 · PhilanthropySAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $2,750 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $2,250 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $850 · Arts & CultureCITYSIDE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE: $500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION: $1,000 · ReligionJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,000 · ReligionWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $800 · ReligionPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $1,750 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Health
Education$360,500Other$67,418Human Services$18,500Philanthropy$6,750Arts & Culture$6,350Religion$2,800Health$2,250

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $282,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS SUPPORT LEAGUE OF THE EAST BAY: $10,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTRIVE FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION: $3,750 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLANTERN PROJECTS INC LANTERN PROJECTS: $1,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTiba Foundation: $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAttitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $818 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRATEFUL GATHERINGS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley Food Network: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYSIDE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY SPCA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPollinator Partnership: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSNAPKIDS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALEX LIVINGSTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMETTA CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

East Bay Community Fo…Jewish Community Fede…Clif Family FoundationMarin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…T Gary and Kathleen R…The Jewish Community …ImpactassetsincThe California Endowm…The William & Flora H…The Yelp FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…
East Bay Community FoundationCA20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Clif Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · The Jewish Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The California Endowment · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

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 Terry and Suzan Kramer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terry and Suzan Kramer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 49 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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