· Private foundation
The Kramer Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $24,500 |
| COLLEGE AFFORDABLE | $20,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD INITIATIVES | $20,000 |
| NDSCS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ITINERIS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| FEAST | $8,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL | $7,500 |
| ADELANTE LATINA | $7,500 |
| JOHN HOPKINS CHILDREN'S CENTER - KRAMER-BIEGEL EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT FUND | $7,500 |
| BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| TAHOO TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK CO FEEDING AMERICA | $5,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +59% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD INITIATIVES7× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +48%
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +150%- CACOLLEGE AFFORDABLE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $51k · revenue +201%
Funded once
Feeding Americaone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +2%- KIKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
To effectively communicate science based information on food safety, nutrition, and health for the public good.
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Neshama Care 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 86 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 COMMUNITY FOOD INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds Itineris Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE LATINA INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE AFFORDABLE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds NDSCS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE LAB SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Lakes Region Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds ISA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA 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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Herbert Bearman Foundation · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Arthur B Wilner Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Blanket Fort 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 Kramer Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% 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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