· Private foundation
The Gerald and Daphna Cramer 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of THE GERALD AND DAPHNA CRAMER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $944k
- $250k+11 grants · $6.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC | $1,368,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA | $1,200,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADO | $700,000 |
| JEWISH COMUNAL FUND | $700,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDC | $570,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATI | $500,000 |
| THE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $244,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $200,000 |
| UJF PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $100,000 |
| JOHNNY'S AMBASSADOR INC | $100,000 |
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, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 6% 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $725k 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
HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC6× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +23% · 31% of their budget- TGTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +286%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- MSMAXWELL SCHOOL OF CITIZENSHIP PUBLIone grant, 2023 · $600k
- JJDCone grant, 2022 · $250k
- MSMORGAN STANLEY DONOR ADVISORY FUNDone 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 weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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 feinstein institute for medical research ("the institute") is the research branch of northwell health ("northwell"). through its affiliation with northwell, the institute's mission is to bridge the gap between biomedical research and…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is The Glaucoma Foundation Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 83 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC ↗
- Who funds PENN SOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN TRUST FOR THE BRITISH LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH GLOBAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI BEACH K9 KNIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds APPLES AND ORANGES ARTS 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Gerald and Daphna Cramer 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.
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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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