· Private foundation
Barbara & Benjamin Cardozo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of BARBARA & BENJAMIN CARDOZO FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESURRECTION EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $24,675 |
| UNITED TALMIDEI HAKVUTZE | $23,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $11,000 |
| THE NORWALK ART SPACE | $8,000 |
| THE HELICON FDN INC | $6,500 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $4,500 |
| ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| HANDS ALONG THE NILE | $3,500 |
| FRIENDS OF WESTPORT PARKS RECR | $3,000 |
| WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | $3,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| THINK NEW MEXICO | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- REResurrection Episcopal Day School3× · 2023–2025 · $41k · revenue +25%
- THTHE HELICON FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +90%
- TCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- AIAORTIC INST OF YNHHone grant, 2022 · $30k
- HAHANDS ALONG THE NILE DEVELOPMENT SEone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue 0%
- PLPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +102%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westport Library Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds United Talmidei Hakvutze Inc ↗
- Who funds Resurrection Episcopal Day School ↗
- Who funds THE HELICON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ALONG THE NILE DEVELOPMENT SE ↗
- Who funds PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC) ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC ↗
- Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE SUSAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barbara & Benjamin Cardozo 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.
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Norwalk Art Space Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 0% of income from government
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 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.