· Private foundation
Cardinal Four 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| NYU INSTITURE OF FINE ARTS | $30,000 |
| BARD CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES | $25,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $25,000 |
| BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $20,000 |
| SYNAGOGUE | $9,600 |
| MIAMI POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $5,000 |
| LOTUS HOUSE WOMEN'S SHELTER | $5,000 |
| STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM NY | $5,000 |
| SFCM | $5,000 |
| YOUNG ARTS MIAMI | $4,628 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $4,600 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 19 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- BFBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY3× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +59%
- ECETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $76k · revenue +35%
BARD COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- BCBARD COLLEGE ANNANDALEone grant, 2023 · $35k
- TCTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES INCone grant, 2019 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Inhabit Earth Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 136 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 BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI HILLEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds Scripps College ↗
- Who funds PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC ↗
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: Arison Arts Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Cowles Charitable Trust · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation 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 Cardinal Four 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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.
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