New York · Private foundation
Cathedral Fund
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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Cathedral Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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 | $2.0M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $3.0M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $400k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $1.3M | 75% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $550k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $450k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $810k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $633k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fitchburg Art Museum | $2,436,876 | 6 | 37% |
| Lifebox Foundation Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 27% |
| Denver Art Museum | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brookview House Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Oregon Bravo Youth Orchestras | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Design Museum Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hijas del Campo | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cathedral Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Cathedral Fund
- How much does Cathedral Fund give?
- Cathedral Fund reported 6 grants totaling $1,984,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cathedral Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), International (22%), Health (19%).
- Who are Cathedral Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fitchburg Art Museum ($2.4M), Lifebox Foundation Inc ($2.0M), Denver Art Museum ($300k).
- Does Cathedral Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cathedral Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cathedral Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Cathedral Fund based?
- Cathedral Fund is based in NY.
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