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The Kraft Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$2.7MHealth$1.2MSocial Science$325kCrime & Legal$300kArts & Culture$269kYouth Development$210kHuman Services$196kRecreation & Sports$185kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$8,776,961
Median grant
1
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
See Grant Details Attachment$8,776,961
02Your 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
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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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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4
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
5
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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7
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
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
10
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Jewish Community FederationsCivil Legal ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity Literacy TutoringYouth Development CentersGovernment Accountability &…Domestic Violence and Sexua…Developmental Disabilities …Environmental Advocacy and …Childhood Cancer SupportCharter and Independent Sch…
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 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr14%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%5%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr14%63%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,320

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.

03the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 50 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)
37/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

See Grant Details Attachment — $38,325,070 · OtherSee Grant Details Attachment+30 more — $2,641,005 · Other+30 moreWilliam Marsh Rice University — $1,000,000 · EducationWilliams College — $814,322 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $100,000 · Education+1 more — $1,800 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $210,000 · Youth DevelopmentLITERATIONS CORP — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Crime & LegalAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureALGEMEINER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,800 · Arts & CultureCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE IFL INC — $160,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$40,966,075Education$2,166,122Youth Development$260,000Crime & Legal$250,000Arts & Culture$246,800Human Services$195,000Recreation & Sports$185,000

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 budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College — $814,322 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE — $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $210,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE IFL INC — $160,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE 30 DAY FUND INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITERATIONS CORP — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $25,325 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALGEMEINER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAIS YAAKOV OF BOSTON INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAILY GIVING INC — $180 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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncThe New England Patri…Cummings Foundation G…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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How do I get to The Kraft Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Kraft 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 50 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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