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The Kremer Foundation at a glance

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The Kremer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$820kHealth$575kInternational$325kEmployment$150kEducation$50kHousing & Shelter$50kRecreation & Sports$30kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDWORKS$200,000
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
GOODWILL OF ORANGE COUNTY$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $760k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KIDWORKS: $250k → 10%KIDWORKS: $200k → 10%KIDWORKS: $100k → 10%KIDWORKS: $50k → 10%KIDWORKS: $50k → 10%KIDWORKS: $50k → 10%KIDWORKS: $50k → 10%KIDWORKS: $10k → 10%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 8 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$1.9M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+48%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEmploymentCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • KC
    KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    8× · 2017–2024 · $760k · revenue +107%
  • HH
    HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +300%
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $325k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • FR
    FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +19%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +124%
  • SV
    SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +48%
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
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Goodwill Industries of the Valley Works

Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.

Human Services
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
The Riverwoods Group

The mission of the riverwoods group (trwg) is to plan, coordinate, implement & further the missions of the riverwoods company at exeter new hampshire (rwe), birch hill terrace (bh) dba riverwoods manchester (rwm), riverwoods durham (rwd),…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoag Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Higher Ground Usa Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $760,000 · Human ServicesKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION …THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $25,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $325,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUST…GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA: $150,000 · EmploymentWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Crime & LegalHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $30,000 · OtherSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $25,000 · OtherGIRLS INC: $10,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPE: $10,000 · Other
Human Services$760,000Health$575,000International$325,000Employment$150,000Education$50,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Crime & Legal$50,000Other$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $760,000 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $325,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 13 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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