· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFEBOX FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $480,000 |
| FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM | $300,000 |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| RIVERBEND (FORMERLY LOWELL HOUSE) | $100,000 |
| HIJAS DEL CAMPO | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +46% · 37% of their budget- DADENVER ART MUSEUM4× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +38%
- BHBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC2× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- LHLOWELL HOUSE (NAME CHANGED TO RIVERBEND)one grant, 2024 · $800k
- BCBOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $750k
- HCHARVARD COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $513k
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.
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.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Massachusetts Design, Art, and Technology Institute (DATMA) presents impactful contemporary art at the intersection of design, art, and technology, combined with related community learning experiences, to spark creativity, collaboration,…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The bronx museum of the arts is a contemporary art museum that connects diverse audiences to the urban experience through its permanent collection, special exhibitions, education programs, and public and community programming and outreach…
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 asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…
The baltimore museum of art connects art to baltimore and baltimore to the world, embodying a commitment to artistic excellence and social equity in every decision from art presentation, interpretation, and collecting, to the composition…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Lifebox Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Design Museum Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIJAS DEL CAMPO ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cathedral Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cathedral Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Brookview House Inc: 34% of income from government
- Design Museum Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
- Fitchburg Art Museum: 2% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
Play a game based on Cathedral’s filings →