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The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
154
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$10MEducation$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$925kReligion$236kCivil Rights$179kHealth$119kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 154 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION$3,020,000
JEWISH FEDERATION$138,600
Individual grant recipient$78,908
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$70,000
Individual grant recipient$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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $500 → 11%FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $15k → 21%FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $1k → 21%FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $1k → 21%FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $1k → 21%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE: $10k → 21%GATEWAY HOUSING FIRST: $5k → 21%GATEWAY HOUSING FIRST: $5k → 21%GATEWAY HOUSING FIRST: $5k → 21%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS: $100 → 11%RUNG FOR WOMEN: $1k → 21%RUNG FOR WOMEN: $500 → 21%LINK STL: $300 → 21%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 11%STL VILLAGE: $500 → 21%STL VILLAGE: $500 → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $1k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $300 → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $300 → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $300 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 152 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

152 repeat relationships: 119 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

152
79

Total granted

$13M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+10%

Still filing today

59%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TK
    THE KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +10% · 48% of their budget
  • LS
    LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK
    6× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +9%
  • CA
    CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS
    4× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • KL
    KARA LOVE PROJECT - CASH AND NONCASH
    one grant, 2020 · $986k
  • SL
    ST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY - NONCASH
    one grant, 2022 · $198k
  • SL
    ST LOUIS ART PLACE INITIATIVE - NONCASH
    one grant, 2020 · $143k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Louis Art Museum Foundation

The sole purpose of the foundation is to support the saint louis art museum, including but not limited to fundraising and other activities and assisting in financing expansion and renovation of its facilities.

Arts & Culture
2
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
3
Jewish Federation of St Louis

Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
4
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
5
Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement
6
St Louis Shakespeare Festival

Fostering community and joy across the st. louis region through the shakespearean tradition of art for all.

Arts & Culture
7
St Louis Sports Commission Inc

Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.

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8
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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9
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission

As the leading public catalyst for arts and culture in st. louis, the regional arts commission leverages the power of creativity to strengthen and enrich our community.

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
11
St Louis Science Center Foundation

Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

Science & Tech
12
Counterpublic

Counterpublic is a triennial exhibition reimaginging the possibilities of art in public life.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Family Life Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kara Love Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

134 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 134 of the 262 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/134
Grantees still filing
85/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION: $8,675,000 · Arts & CultureTHE KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION+30 more: $961,381 · Arts & Culture+30 moreKARA LOVE PROJECT - CASH AND NONCASH: $986,268 · OtherKARA LOVE PROJECT - CASH AND NONCASHWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - NONCASH: $472,797 · OtherWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - NONCASHJEWISH FEDERATION: $264,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $256,605 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION - NONCASH: $230,537 · OtherCONCORDANCE ACADEMY - NONCASH: $202,813 · OtherST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY - NONCASH: $197,889 · OtherTHE MUNY - NONCASH: $170,314 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUIS: $168,000 · Other+122 more: $2,073,990 · Other+122 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $71,425 · EducationSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL: $23,938 · EducationWilliam & Mary Foundation: $20,000 · EducationJUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO: $17,500 · EducationST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationARTS AS HEALING FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Education+5 more: $6,070 · EducationUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $14,000 · PhilanthropyThe Columbia Foundation: $10,562 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $18,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY HOUSING FIRST INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $7,400 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,500 · Human Services+4 more: $4,400 · Human ServicesKARA LOVE PROJECT: $25,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthCASA DE SALUD: $7,500 · HealthCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $6,000 · HealthPlaces for People Incorporated: $5,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $1,600 · HealthWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC: $25,000 · InternationalMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS: $8,000 · International+2 more: $2,000 · International
Arts & Culture$9,636,381Other$5,023,913Education$156,933Philanthropy$83,562Human Services$60,300Health$60,100International$35,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION: $8,675,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $227,793 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $132,298 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJAZZ ST LOUIS: $75,158 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $71,425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $71,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND CENTER INC: $66,697 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSt Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum: $51,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $50,960 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $44,633 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDANCE SAINT LOUIS: $43,700 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE GREATER ST LOUIS ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL: $42,800 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPHOTO ART & SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $32,172 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTAGES ST LOUIS: $29,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCINEMA ST LOUIS: $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetKARA LOVE PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL: $23,938 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $21,867 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam & Mary Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $18,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO: $17,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRADIO ARTS FOUNDATION: $15,800 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Women Against Hardship: $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY HOUSING FIRST INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Columbia Foundation: $10,562 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT LOUIS CHAMBER CHORUS: $9,750 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE SALUD: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $7,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTS AS HEALING FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDECEMBER PUBLISHING INC: $5,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK ↗
  • Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds JAZZ ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds GRAND CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds St Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum ↗
  • Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCE SAINT LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER ST LOUIS ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds PHOTO ART & SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Regional Cultural and…St Louis Community Fo…Trio Foundation of St…United Way of Greater…Moneta Group Charitab…Edward Jones Foundati…St Louis Community Fo…Centene FoundationSam and Marilyn Fox F…Leon and Mary Strauss…World Wide Technology…Employees Community F…
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development CommissionMO94.7× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Centene Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 262 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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