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· Private foundation
THE KRANZBERG FAMILY CHARITABLE
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$4.2M
Granted FY2024
154
Grants
12
Communities
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0163% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Arts & Culture$9.1MEducation$291kPhilanthropy$83kHealth$44kHuman Services$26kEnvironment$21kCommunity Improvement$12kRecreation & Sports$11kInternational$9kOther$5.5M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
crownpark
2019
bettermarypark
2020
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2022
cancerdancelouis librarydiabeticconservancystlinternational
2023
museum noncashvillagegreater louislouis noncashradiogatewaypark
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 154 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k122 grants · $163k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $402k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $628k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.0M
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
- KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION$3,020,000
- JEWISH FEDERATION$138,600
- VARIETY ST LOUIS - NONCASH$78,908
- WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$70,000
- SHELDON ART GALLERY$65,100
- CONCORDANCE ACADEMY - NONCASH$59,819
- ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - NONCASH$59,370
- THE MUNY - NONCASH$55,522
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS - NONCASH$50,977
- JEWISH FEDERATION - NONCASH$50,200
- LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK - NONCASH$49,983
- CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS - NONCASH$40,254
- OPERA THEATRE OF ST LOUIS - NONCASH$26,083
- ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM$25,682
- ST LOUIS HISTORY MUSEUM - NONCASH$25,175
02The need
04
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:
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 62% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 152 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else
152 repeat relationships — 118 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
152
85
Total granted
$13M
$2.0M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+24%
+35%
Still filing today
38%
24%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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
- KAKRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +67% · 48% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUIS2× · 2018–2022 · $168k · revenue +83%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- KLKARA LOVE PROJECT - CASH AND NONCASHone grant, 2020 · $986k
- SLST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY - NONCASHone grant, 2022 · $198k
- SLST LOUIS ART PLACE INITIATIVE - NONCASHone grant, 2020 · $143k
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
St Louis Shakespeare Festival
Fostering community and joy across the st. louis region through the shakespearean tradition of art for all.
Arts & Culture
2
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Opera Theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities; to foster the next generation; and to make opera accessible and inclusive.
Arts & Culture
3
The Repertory Theatre of St Louis
The repertory theatre of st. louis creates bridges between people in the st. louis region and beyond through expertly crafted theatrical experiences that are joyful, unique, inspiring, and thought-provoking.
Arts & Culture
4
St Louis Art Museum Foundation
To support the saint louis art museum including general support, art accessions, and expansion.
Arts & Culture
5
St Louis University
To seek excellence in teaching, research, health care, and service to the community as guided by the spiritual and intellectual ideals of the society of jesus.
Education
6
St Louis Community Foundation
Administer charitable funds for the betterment of st. louis
Philanthropy
7
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Arts & Culture
8
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts
Promote, encourage, and foster the arts & culture within the st. louis, missouri area
Arts & Culture
9
St Louis Jewish Light
The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.
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10
Mission St Louis
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships.
Community Improvement
11
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
To enrich the lives of everyone in our community through diverse performing arts experiences
Arts & Culture
12
The Greater St Louis
To provide support for the arts in the st. louis region through grants, full service collaborative office facility, and public awareness.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jazz St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters. 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.
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
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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/102
the rest of the field
11%
2,601/23,056
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.
05the grantee network
94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/94
Grantees still filing
69/94
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$9,060,400Other$5,549,592Education$290,850Philanthropy$82,762Health$43,600Human Services$25,900Environment$20,525
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 KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds JAZZ ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS KAPLAN FELDMAN(HOLOCAUST MUSEUM) ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GRAND CENTER ↗
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.
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO80.6× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Employees of Community Fund · Commerce Bancshares 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 organisation THE KRANZBERG FAMILY CHARITABLE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +67% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 260482903 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 48% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Kranzberg Family Charitable?
Find your warmest path to The Kranzberg Family Charitable through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines