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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.

$237k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$633kEducation$235kHealth$108kReligion$94kPhilanthropy$68kInternational$20kHousing & Shelter$18kEnvironment$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $165k
$1,029
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM$40,000
NYU INSTITURE OF FINE ARTS$30,000
BARD CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES$25,000
BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM$25,000
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$20,000
SYNAGOGUE$9,600
MIAMI POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE$5,000
SFCM$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$5,000
LOTUS HOUSE WOMEN'S SHELTER$5,000
STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM NY$5,000
YOUNG ARTS MIAMI$4,628
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$4,600
MIAMI BEACH BOTANICAL GARDEN$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $800 → 28%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $1k → 17%JEWISH BOARD: $28k → 17%JEWISH BOARD: $25k → 17%JEWISH BOARD: $6k → 17%JEWISH BOARD: $5k → 17%SOLUTIONS NOW FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
AR
DC
TX
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$874k · 47 repeat orgs$413k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
67

Total granted

$874k
$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+16%

Still filing today

68%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • BF
    BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $160k · revenue +59%
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $76k · revenue +35%
  • BARD COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +256%

Funded once

  • BC
    BARD COLLEGE ANNANDALE
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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.

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Museum of the City of New York

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
7
Berggruen Institute
Education
8
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
9
New York Studio School

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)

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10
Artpace Inc (Audit)

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.

Arts & Culture
11
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

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…

Religion
12
New York Academy of Art

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.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 136 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/73
Grantees still filing
50/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALBRIGHT KONX ART GALLERY: $80,000 · OtherALBRIGHT KONX ART GALLERYCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $59,730 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUECAROLYN ROSEN MILLER FUND: $50,000 · OtherCAROLYN ROSEN MILLER FUNDBARD COLLEGE ANNANDALE: $35,000 · OtherBARD COLLEGE ANNANDALENYU INSTITURE OF FINE ARTS: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherBARD CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES: $25,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES INC: $25,000 · OtherGREATER MIAMI HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Other+82 more: $238,278 · Other+82 moreBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $160,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMYCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCrystal Bridges-Museum of American…WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $16,363 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $15,030 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $76,950 · Arts & Culture+14 moreETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $76,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE F…BARD COLLEGE: $70,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGEUniversity of Miami: $25,486 · EducationUniversity of Mia…Scripps College: $10,000 · EducationNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $10,000 · Education+4 more: $8,775 · EducationJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $63,775 · Human Services+3 more: $2,888 · Human ServicesAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $15,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 · InternationalCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $6,500 · HealthMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $4,500 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $11,174 · PhilanthropyARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA: $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$588,008Arts & Culture$398,343Education$200,261Human Services$66,663International$17,500Health$16,200Philanthropy$13,674

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $160,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $76,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $63,775 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $25,486 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MIAMI HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $16,363 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC: $15,030 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $11,174 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetScripps College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC: $8,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN THE ARTS INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSKOWHEGAN SCHOOL OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC: $7,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI LIGHT PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMy Sisters Place Inc: $5,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKENT PRESENTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPERFORMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLSEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $3,575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $3,029 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $2,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCCJ INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Arison Arts FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Cowles Charitable…The New York Communit…The Ford FoundationThe Brown Foundation …Helen Frankenthaler F…Ag FoundationThe Andy Warhol Found…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Batchelor Foundat…
Arison Arts FoundationFL30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cardinal Four Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cardinal Four Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Cardinal Four Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Cardinal Four Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 136 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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