The Gerald and Daphna Cramer Foundation
At a glance
This funder does not accept unsolicited applications. The foundation chooses the organisations it funds itself.
Key takeaways
- The foundation makes grants only to organisations it has preselected and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a cold approach from a small charity is not the route the filing describes.
- Repeat giving is strong: 90% of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had also funded in earlier filings, so an existing connection with the foundation or its trustees matters more than a new proposal.
- Its recipients span universities, medical institutions, Jewish communal organisations, arts bodies and social-service groups, and its stated purposes are simply charitable, so fit is hard to judge from the filing alone; grants are mainly in New York and Florida, but no geographic focus is stated.
- Most grants are modest, with half of its grants at $50,000 or less and about 8 in 10 between $5,000 and $625,000, so a request in that range matches typical giving, though its largest grant was about $1,350,000 and the band is not a ceiling.
- The filing gives no timing or further application steps, so any approach should start from an existing relationship rather than a speculative submission.
Overview
The Gerald and Daphna Cramer Foundation is a US private foundation based in Woodbury, NY.
What they fund
Profile based on the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2024, TY2023, TY2022) only: no website or other web source for the foundation was found. Every statement is checked against the filings. Sources read on 7 October 2026.
Priority Areas
The filings record grants to a varied set of charitable organisations. Recipients include universities and schools; medical institutions; Jewish communal organisations; arts and cultural organisations; and social-service bodies. The rows include support for medical and educational institutions alongside arts and community organisations. The stated purposes are recorded simply as charitable, rather than identifying particular programmes or fields. The filing says contributions go only to preselected charitable organisations and does not accept unsolicited requests; it gives no details of how recipients are selected. The grants show varied charitable giving, but do not state a defined thematic strategy.
Geographic Focus
No geographic focus is stated; the filings show grants mainly in New York and Florida.
How to apply
Contributions are made only to preselected charitable organisations; unsolicited requests are not accepted. No further application steps are stated.
Application success factors
- Repeat giving: In its TY2024 filing, 90% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2022 or TY2023 filing.
- Grant size: Across its TY2022, TY2023 and TY2024 filings, half of its 85 grants to organisations were $50,000 or less.
Where grants go
From grants to organisations in the foundation’s filings for tax years 2022–2024.
Grant dollars by state
5 other states: <1%
- The largest single recipient received 16% of grant dollars to organisations.
- In tax year 2024, 90% of grant dollars went to organisations The Gerald and Daphna Cramer Foundation had funded in earlier filings.
- No grants were paid directly to organisations outside the US.
- 26% of grant dollars went to intermediaries that regrant to other organisations.
Grants
How much do they typically give?
Share of 26 grants in tax year 2024 by size
Median $150k (tax year 2024)
The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:
- Hands on Tzedakah · Charitable$1,368,0002024 tax year
- American Friends of Sheba · Charitable$1,200,0002024 tax year
- Jewish Communal Fund · Charitable$700,0002024 tax year
- American Friends of Magen David Adom · Charitable$700,0002024 tax year
- American Friends of IDC · Charitable$570,0002024 tax year
- Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation · Charitable$500,0002024 tax year
- Glaucoma Foundation · Charitable$400,0002024 tax year
- GS Donor Advised · Charitable$300,0002024 tax year
Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.
Officers and directors
- Arthur Weiss — Director
- Ronald Gallatin — Director
- Thomas Cramer — Director
- Shelly Raskin — Director
- Roy Raskin — Director
- Kimberly Germ-Cramer — Director
- Douglas Cramer — Director
- Lauren B Cramer — Secretary
- Daphna Cramer — President, T
From the latest Form 990-PF filing
3 years of tax filings
| Year | Total expenses | Grants paid | Assets | Filing document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 tax year | $4,088,829 | $3,741,514 | $40,008,056 | Filing for 2022 tax year |
| 2023 tax year | $6,041,919 | $5,717,011 | $43,216,839 | Filing for 2023 tax year |
| 2024 tax year | $7,895,746 | $7,582,032 | $44,367,415 | Filing for 2024 tax year |
Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
Sources
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- Woodbury, NY