Wisconsin · Public charity
Cambridge Foundation
The CAMBRIDGE FOUNDATION has one motive, one ideal, one hope, to make our community a better place to live.
- $132k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $28,710
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,190
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Cambridge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $131k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $119k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $74k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $26k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $67k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $148k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $66k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $42k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge Community Activities Program Inc | $163,747 | 6 | 7% |
| Cambridge School District | $130,545 | 7 | n/a |
| Cambridge Volunteer Fire Department | $99,190 | 2 | 24% |
| Village of Cambridge | $59,407 | 4 | n/a |
| Cambridge Historic School Foundatio | $46,500 | 5 | 55% |
| Village of Cambridge | $32,850 | 2 | n/a |
| Cambridge Area Resource Team Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 28% |
| Lake Ripley Management District | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Village of Rockdale | $16,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cambridge Arts Council Inc | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), 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.
Open a dossier: Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn
How this is measured
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About Cambridge Foundation
- How much does Cambridge Foundation give?
- Cambridge Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $131,647 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Cambridge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
- Who are Cambridge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cambridge Community Activities Program Inc ($164k), Cambridge School District ($131k), Cambridge Volunteer Fire Department ($99k).
- Does Cambridge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cambridge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amundson a Tr for Cambridge Fdn.
- Where is Cambridge Foundation based?
- Cambridge Foundation is based in WI.
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