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Cramer Karuna 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.

$552k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$205k
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 FY20232024.

Health$251kInternational$205kHuman Services$65kReligion$47kEducation$30kFood & Nutrition$25k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $505k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNICEF USA$205,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$200,000
CHILDREN'S DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER$50,000
CHARITY GLOBAL INC$50,000
YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK$20,000
PLUM VILLAGE COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED BUDDHISM INC THICH NHAT HANH FOUNDATION$10,508
YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
TIBETAN NUNS PROJECT$5,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC$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 (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%I AM MY SISTERS KEEPER INC: $10k → 10%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $5k → 9%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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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 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.

1
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
2
Kids in Need Foundation

We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…

Education
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
4
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

5
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
6
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
7
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Make-a-Wish Foundation International

None

Human Services
10
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
11
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

The mission of the american academy of child and adolescent psychiatry is to promote healthy development of children, adolescents, and families through advocacy, education, and research; and to meet the professional needs of child and…

12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York County Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $200,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERPLUM VILLAGE COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED BUDDHISM INC — $26,270 · OtherPLUM VILLAGE COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED BUDDHISM INCYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK — $25,000 · OtherYORK COUNTY FOOD BANKFORT LAUDERDALE HIGH SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherFORT LAUDERDALE HIGH SCHOOLPLUM VILLAGE COMMUNITY OF ENGAGED BUDDHISM INC THICH NHAT HANH FOUNDATION — $10,508 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $205,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFTIBETAN NUNS PROJECT — $10,000 · InternationalCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLO…I AM MY SISTERS KEEPER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesI AM MY SIS…KEYSTONE KIDSPACE — $5,000 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE KI…CHILDREN'S DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…+1 more — $1,000 · HealthYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 · Education
Other$281,778International$215,000Human Services$65,000Health$51,000Education$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $205,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIBETAN NUNS PROJECT — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetI AM MY SISTERS KEEPER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKEYSTONE KIDSPACE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Cramer Karuna 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 100%
  • I Am My Sisters Keeper Inc100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cramer Karuna Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cramer Karuna Foundation 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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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