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· Private foundation
THE KRAUSS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$164k
Granted FY2021
24
Grants
9
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of THE KRAUSS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
netherlandregents
2019
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2020
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2021
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2021 · 24 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k19 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$4,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BEAR GIVERS$50,000
- MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIO$20,000
- CIDNY$15,000
- MAZON$10,000
- FRIENDS OF LAKET ISRAEL$10,000
- PROGENIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$8,000
- ANIMAL RESCUE FUND$6,000
- STANLEY ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$5,000
- HIAS$5,000
- NY TIMES NEEDIEST CASES$5,000
- NC STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
- WOODSIDE PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE PROTEC$4,000
- RONALD MACDONALD HOUSE$3,000
- WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL$3,000
- MUSIC FOR AUTISM$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–21, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 33 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2021, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
33
7
Total granted
$1.1M
$60k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+34%
+11%
Still filing today
21%
14%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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
- BGBEAR GIVERS2× · 2019–2021 · $250k · revenue +68% · 42% of their budget
- CLCHAI LIFELINE4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +58%
- WPWOODSIDE PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION FDN3× · 2018–2020 · $12k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- UDUC DAVIS DARROWBY ANGEL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $30k
- URUC REGENTS VERTone grant, 2018 · $15k
- TFTHE FOOD PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +11%
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.
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World Wildlife Fund Inc
Wwf has worked since 1961 to protect the future of nature. wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. the wwf network, of which wwf-us is part, is one of the world's leading…
Environment
2
Foundation for Financial
Human Services
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company
the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.
Education
4
Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc
The wonderfund invests in children receiving services from dcf by providing enrichment opportunities and access to emergency aid and transitional necessities.the wonderfund is a private, nonprofit 501(c)3 that serves children engaged with…
Human Services
5
Afp Foundation for Philanthropy
Our mission is to advance philanthropic investment and impact in the nonprofit sector.we accomplish this by:- serving as a catalyst for the nonprofit sector to address the sector's greatest issues - acting as a convener between the…
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6
Mission Asset Fund
Helping people become visible, active, and successful in their financial lives by expanding access to responsible financial products for low-income and immigrant communities.
Community Improvement
7
Global Fund for Children
To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.
Arts & Culture
8
Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
Our vision is to reimagine everyday giving to help charities. our mission is to enable the world's leading online platforms to create opportunities for everyday charitable giving. in doing so, we ensure our programs are trustworthy,…
Philanthropy
9
The Water Research Foundation
Advancing the science of water to improve the quality of life.
Environment
10
Food & Friends Inc
To provide medically tailored meals and nutrition therapy to people with serious illnesses.
Health
11
Food Allergy Fund
The food allergy fund is dedicated to funding food allergy research focused on the underlying causes of food allergies and improved treatments for people with food allergies.
Health
12
Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc
Sfi's mission is to advance sustainability through forest-focused collaboration.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Music for Autism and the most unlike its peers is Siena House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$779,300Health$349,000Public Safety & Disaster$12,000Human Services$11,000Environment$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Arts & Culture$2,500
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE KRAUSS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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: BEAR GIVERS.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~14 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 +68% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 270240513 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 BEAR GIVERS, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% 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 Krauss Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Krauss Charitable Foundation 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