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The Kraus Family Foundation

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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
55
Grants FY2024
63
Organizations funded FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.2MRecreation & Sports$1.0MEducation$672kReligion$240kEnvironment$72kHuman Services$24kInternational$22kHealth$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Museum of Modern Art$2,094,10021%
The Keewaydin Foundation$1,001,00026%
Trinity College$250,00010%
Saint Ann's School$215,00020%
New Museum of Contemporary Art$205,00021%
Union for Reform Judaism$185,0002n/a
Claremont McKenna College$158,50010%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc$102,00020%
The Sculpture Center Inc$85,00023%
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc$75,00021%
Show all 65 grantees
All grantees of The Kraus Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Museum of Modern Art$2,094,10021%
The Keewaydin Foundation$1,001,00026%
Trinity College$250,00010%
Saint Ann's School$215,00020%
New Museum of Contemporary Art$205,00021%
Union for Reform Judaism$185,0002n/a
Claremont McKenna College$158,50010%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc$102,00020%
The Sculpture Center Inc$85,00023%
Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc$75,00021%
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc$70,00021%
The Art Institute of Chicago$60,00010%
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York$55,0002n/a
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc$45,00020%
The Drawing Center Inc$40,00021%
Uc San Diego Foundation$30,00020%
The New 42nd Street Inc$27,50020%
United States Artists Inc$25,00010%
Fractured Atlas Inc$20,00010%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$18,00010%
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc$11,00010%
New York City Center Inc$10,00010%
Whitney Museum of American Art$10,00020%
The Allen-Stevenson School$10,00020%
The Chinati Foundation$10,00011%
United States Association for UNHCR$10,00010%
The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc$7,00010%
School of American Ballet Inc$6,00020%
Rhode Island School of Design$5,00010%
Wethersfield Foundation Inc$5,00010%
The Jed Foundation$5,00010%
Queens Museum of Art$5,00010%
Young Audiences Inc$5,00010%
The Animal Medical Center$5,00010%
International Print Center New York$4,00010%
The Little Opera Theater of Ny Inc$4,00023%
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Inc$3,50010%
Innisfree Foundation Inc$3,5001n/a
Socrates Sculpture Park Inc$3,00010%
Blue Ryno Foundation$2,5001n/a
Swiss Institute$2,03010%
Common Cause Education Fund$2,00010%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$2,00010%
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc$2,00010%
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Stanford Free Library$2,00020%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$2,00010%
The Wooster Group Inc$2,00010%
1898 Foundation Inc$2,000111%
Storm King Art Center$2,00010%
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc$1,00010%
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc$1,00010%
Project Eats Inc$1,00010%
Bard College$1,00010%
The Toy Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Find Your Light Foundation$1,00010%
Trisha Brown Company Inc$1,00010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$1,00010%
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$1,00010%
Museum of the City of New York$1,00010%
The Doe Fund Inc$1,00010%
Cityarts Inc$1,00010%
Fund for Park Avenue New York Inc$72020%
International Sculpture Center Inc$50010%
Arts Mid-Hudson Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($359k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Kraus Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $2,094,100 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Keewaydin Foundation: $1,001,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTrinity College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Ann's School: $215,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $205,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $158,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArmand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc: $102,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Sculpture Center Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetAlliance for Young Artists and Writers Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDutchess Land Conservancy Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Drawing Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New 42nd Street Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $18,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew York City Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Allen-Stevenson School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chinati Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool of American Ballet Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island School of Design: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWethersfield Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Jed Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQueens Museum of Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Audiences Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Animal Medical Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Print Center New York: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Little Opera Theater of Ny Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSkowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSocrates Sculpture Park Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSwiss Institute: $2,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommon Cause Education Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStanford Free Library: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wooster Group Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget1898 Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetStorm King Art Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLower Manhattan Cultural Council Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 61.

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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.

The Cowles Charitable TrustNY30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cowles Charitable Trust · Arison Arts Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Ag Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc · Robert Lehman Foundation Inc · Terra Foundation for American Art

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.

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About The Kraus Family Foundation

How much does The Kraus Family Foundation give?
The Kraus Family Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $2,768,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Kraus Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Recreation & Sports (6%), Education (4%).
Who are The Kraus Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Museum of Modern Art ($2.1M), The Keewaydin Foundation ($1.0M), Trinity College ($250k).
Does The Kraus Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Kraus Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cowles Charitable Trust, Arison Arts Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
Where is The Kraus Family Foundation based?
The Kraus Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 79 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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