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Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$211k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2026
8
Organizations funded FY2025
38%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 38% of the organizations Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving6$211k0%
FY20258$128k38%
FY20244$116k0%
FY202310$114k30%
FY202210$120k30%
FY202112$188k92%
FY20201$142k0%
FY20191$116kn/a
81% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2026.

Housing & Shelter$405kEducation$136kRecreation & Sports$84kPublic Benefit$67kArts & Culture$63kEnvironment$63kHuman Services$12kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cambridge Foundation$405,488571%
Cambridge Community Activities Program Inc$76,92241%
Cambridge Historic School Foundatio$70,000355%
Cambridge Area Resource Team Inc$63,000421%
Cambridge-Deerfield Players Theater$43,574433%
Cambridge School District$35,0002n/a
Utica Community Association$5,000117%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($436k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn

How much does Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn give?
Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn reported 6 grants totaling $210,842 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (36%), Education (12%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Cambridge Foundation ($405k), Cambridge Community Activities Program Inc ($77k), Cambridge Historic School Foundatio ($70k).
Does Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn based?
Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn is based in IL.

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 21 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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