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Barbara & Benjamin Cardozo Foundation at a glance

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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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$109kArts & Culture$92kEducation$48kHealth$32kFood & Nutrition$31kRecreation & Sports$8kHuman Services$8kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
$3,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$312k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE$3,000
FRIENDS OF WESTPORT PARKS RECR$3,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
THINK NEW MEXICO$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%THINK NEW MEXICO: $2k → 12%WESTPORT WESTON FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 9%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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 13 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$275k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+16%

Still filing today

62%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • RE
    Resurrection Episcopal Day School
    3× · 2023–2025 · $41k · revenue +25%
  • TH
    THE HELICON FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +90%
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • AI
    AORTIC INST OF YNHH
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • HA
    HANDS ALONG THE NILE DEVELOPMENT SE
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations

The mission of the new york public library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.

Education
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
6
Wallkill Public Library

The mission of the Wallkill Public Library is to provide our community with access to the highest quality materials, services, and programs, as a source of information, education, entertainment, and cultural enrichment. The library enables…

Education
7
The Queens Borough Public Library

Queens library transforms lives by cultivating personal and intellectual growth and by building strong communities.

Education
8
Hudson River Museum of Westchester

Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.

Arts & Culture
9
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…

Community Improvement
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
Wamc

Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…

Arts & Culture
12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westport Library Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 40 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION EMANUEL: $51,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANUELAORTIC INST OF YNHH: $30,000 · OtherAORTIC INST OF YNHHMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $23,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERATHE HELICON FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 · OtherTHE HELICON FOUNDATION INCWAKEMAN TOWN FARM: $12,350 · OtherWAKEMAN TOWN FARMIndividual grant recipient: $11,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+22 more: $54,300 · Other+22 moreResurrection Episcopal Day School: $41,275 · EducationResurrection Ep…PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · EducationPEQUOT LIBRARY …WESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · EducationWESTPORT LIBRAR…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationUnited Talmidei Hakvutze Inc: $49,000 · ReligionUnited Talmide…THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $17,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGI…THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC: $14,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NORWALK…WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $7,100 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT CO…ROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC: $18,500 · Food & NutritionHANDS ALONG THE NILE DEVELOPMENT SE: $6,000 · InternationalCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsKINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE: $800 · Recreation & Sports
Other$203,750Education$50,275Religion$49,000Arts & Culture$38,600Food & Nutrition$18,500International$6,000Recreation & Sports$5,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Talmidei Hakvutze Inc: $49,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetResurrection Episcopal Day School: $41,275 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HELICON FOUNDATION INC: $21,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetROADRUNNER FOOD BANK INC: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORWALK ART SPACE INC: $14,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $7,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS ALONG THE NILE DEVELOPMENT SE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC (HANDS INC): $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUSAN FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE: $800 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…The James & Mary Elle…Newman's Own Foundati…Fairfield County's Co…Ibm International Fou…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT14.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home