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The Jim and Margaret Krum Foundation Inc

The Krum Foundation operates exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Inc.

$366k
Granted FY2021
28
Grants FY2021
17
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Jim and Margaret Krum Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of The Lowcountry Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Jim and Margaret Krum Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $335k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

21
’18
14
’19
17
’20
24
’21
0
’23

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

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 FY2018–2023.

Education$1.1MPhilanthropy$345kHealth$100kRecreation & Sports$27kInternational$16k
02FY2021 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 28 grants below total $335,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $366,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k19 grants · $147k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
$8,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Clemson University$64,000
University of SC$32,750
College of Charleston$23,000
Furman University$15,000
Charleston Southern Univ$14,000
St Johns University$10,000
Emory University - Oxford$10,000
Med Univ of SC$10,000
Stanford University$10,000
University of Pittsburgh$9,000
Liberty University$8,500
Franciscan University$8,000
GA Tech$8,000
University of KY$8,000
Reed College$8,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%University of Arizona: $8k → 15%University of Minnesota: $9k → 11%Lafayette College: $8k → 11%Carnegie Mellon University: $10k → 11%Stanford University: $10k → 8%St Johns University: $10k → 13%Furman University: $15k → 10%Med Univ of SC: $40k → 12%Wofford College: $8k → 15%Clemson University: $92k → 16%University of SC: $54k → 16%Georgetown University: $16k → 14%Auburn University: $19k → 15%Reed College: $8k → 12%Belmont University: $8k → 14%Rhodes College: $10k → 17%Wake Forest University: $10k → 8%GA Tech: $8k → 13%Emory University - Oxford: $10k → 14%SCAD: $23k → 16%Franciscan University: $8k → 19%Columbia College Chicago: $8k → 14%Liberty University: $9k → 20%Virginia Tech: $10k → 21%Lafayette College: $8k → 11%Carnegie Mellon University: $10k → 11%Stanford University: $10k → 8%St Johns University: $10k → 13%Furman University: $15k → 10%Med Univ of SC: $30k → 12%Clemson University: $74k → 16%University of SC: $38k → 16%Georgetown University: $16k → 14%Wake Forest University: $10k → 8%Emory University - Oxford: $10k → 14%University of Pittsburgh: $9k → 11%Med Univ of SC: $20k → 12%Clemson University: $66k → 16%University of SC: $33k → 16%Emory University - Oxford: $10k → 14%Med Univ of SC: $10k → 12%Clemson University: $64k → 16%University of SC: $33k → 16%Emory University - Oxford: $10k → 14%College of Charleston: $47k → 12%College of Charleston: $23k → 12%College of Charleston: $23k → 12%College of Charleston: $12k → 12%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

VT
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 23 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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

23
8

Total granted

$1.1M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+59%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • EU
    Emory University
    4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +61%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $38k · revenue +44%
  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SC
    Savannah College of Art and DesignIncgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $23k · revenue +80%
  • VP
    VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2018 · $9k

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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
7
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
8
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
9
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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10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 66 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr15%3%10–20yr24%14%20–35yr9%17%35–55yr19%62%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr15%5%10–20yr24%8%20–35yr9%51%35–55yr19%33%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/44
the rest of the field
12%
3,449/28,745

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
28/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY — $295,500 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYUSC School of Medicine Greenville — $157,250 · OtherUSC School of Medicine GreenvilleCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON — $105,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTONPHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INC — $100,000 · OtherPHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INCAUBURN UNIVERSITY — $27,000 · Other+11 more — $109,000 · Other+11 moreEmory University — $40,000 · EducationEmory UniversityGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $38,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITYFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE — $30,000 · EducationFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBEN…Columbia College Chicago — $24,000 · EducationSavannah College of Art and DesignInc — $22,500 · EducationCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY — $21,260 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $20,000 · EducationSOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY — $19,500 · EducationRhodes College — $17,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $16,000 · EducationCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $16,000 · EducationBelmont University — $16,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $16,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $16,000 · Education+10 more — $73,500 · Education+10 moreCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $345,139 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of …
Other$793,750Education$455,760Philanthropy$345,139

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $345,139 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetEmory University — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College Chicago — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc — $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY — $21,260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY — $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRhodes College — $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREED INSTITUTE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $6,000 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.

Folds of Honor Founda…Tulsa Community Found…
Folds of Honor FoundationOK15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community 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 Jim and Margaret Krum 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Yale University — 9% of income from government
  • Reed Institute — 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 The Jim and Margaret Krum Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Jim and Margaret Krum 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 44 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $378k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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