· Private foundation
The Krause 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Krause Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Cleveland, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Krause Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $42k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $15,000 |
| MALTZ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE | $10,000 |
| MORSELIFE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHRON'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CJPC | $4,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART | $1,250 |
| RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $1,000 |
| HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND | $500 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $100 |
| TEMPLE TIFERETH ISRAEL | $60 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $2.3M · revenue +50%- FCFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC7× · 2017–2024 · $875k · revenue +141%
- WRWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY5× · 2017–2021 · $325k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- JAJOHNSON AT CORNELL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $50k
- NNA'AMATone grant, 2017 · $10k
- KIKESHET INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +100%
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.
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.
The Cleveland Orchestra inspires and enriches lives by creating extraordinary musical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 76 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET INC ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HEBREW ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Albert B & Audrey G Ratner Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Horowitz Ratner Family Foundation · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · James and Susan Ratner Family Foundation · The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust · The Miller Family Foundation · The Kline Family Foundation · The Gries Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Krause Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Krause Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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