· Private foundation
Cadence Giving Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $89k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $910k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC | $1,200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELE | $200,000 |
| IIT DELHI ENDOWMENT FUND US | $100,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELE | $100,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECH | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ETH ZURICH FOUNDATION USA INC | $50,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR NC A&T STATE UNI VERSI | $50,000 |
| MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FO | $33,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $20,000 |
| HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT | $16,080 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Cadence Giving Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 16 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $709k 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
- CHCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +10%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $900k · revenue -36%
- TMTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue -37%
Funded once
- CICAPITAL IIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue -74%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +28%- TNThe North Carolina A&T Real Estate Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -25%
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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The primary exempt purpose of the foundation is to operate exclusively to support the catholic university of america. the catholic university of america is organized and is operated exclusively for religious, charitable, (continued on…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Education and Research
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 26 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 CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL IIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IIT DELHI ENDOWMENT FUND US ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for NC A&T State University ↗
- Who funds The North Carolina A&T Real Estate Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ETH ZURICH FOUNDATION (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds GENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Cadence Giving Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% 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.
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