· Private foundation
The Morris J Kramer Memorial Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BUSHWICK STARR INC | $100,000 |
| THE DALTON SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO (WNYC) | $20,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $19,000 |
| BAY RIDGE JEWISH CENTER | $13,000 |
| POLLYANNA INC | $12,500 |
| ONE STORY INC | $11,000 |
| GREENPEACE FUND INC | $10,000 |
| THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY | $3,334 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +1%
- DSDALTON SCHOOLS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +2%
- PIPollyanna Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TFTRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- WWINone grant, 2023 · $2k
- CRCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +27%
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.
(see schedule o)
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The fund for public schools is dedicated to supporting new york city's public schools with private, philanthropic investment from foundations, individuals, businesses, and other charitable partners.
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 manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 THE BUSHWICK STARR INC ↗
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Pollyanna Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE STORY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRANS FORMATIVE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Morris J Kramer Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morris J Kramer Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
- Landmark College Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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