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Cavalier Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cavalier Foundation Inc

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.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$100kArts & Culture$77kReligion$5kHealth$4kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Indianapolis Opera$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Books for Colliers Kids: $1k → 10%Oinking Acres Farm Rescue and Sanctuary Inc: $50k → 5%Friends of Ferdinand Inc: $50k → 9%Indianapolis Opera: $3k → 16%The Naples Players: $2k → 10%Indianapolis Opera: $3k → 16%Gulfshores Playhouse: $1k → 10%Indianapolis Opera: $3k → 16%Gulfshores Playhouse: $1k → 10%Indianapolis Opera: $3k → 16%Indianapolis Opera: $3k → 16%St Lukes: $1k → 16%St Lukes: $1k → 16%St Lukes: $1k → 16%St Lukes: $1k → 16%St Vincent Foundation: $1k → 16%St Vincent Foundation: $1k → 16%St Vincent Foundation: $1k → 16%St Vincent Foundation: $1k → 16%Rosie's Southside Animal Shelter Inc: $50k → 16%Indianapolis Symphony: $3k → 16%Indianapolis Symphony: $2k → 16%Indianapolis Symphony: $2k → 16%Indianapolis Symphony: $2k → 16%Indianapolis Museum of Art: $3k → 16%Indianapolis Museum of Art: $3k → 16%Indianapolis Museum of Art: $3k → 16%Indianapolis Museum of Art: $3k → 16%Brightlane Learning: $1k → 16%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.
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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42k · 6 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$42k
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHealthOther
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

  • IO
    Indianapolis Opera Company
    5× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +27%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +105%
  • GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of Ferdinand Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • OA
    OINKING ACRES FARM RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • RS
    ROSIE'S SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.

1
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
2
Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc

We protect nature and inspire people to care for our world. we believe in a world where nature and people thrive. we are one team. we care. we welcome everyone. we have integrity. we strive for excellence.

Animals
3
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.

Arts & Culture
4
Indiana Symphony Society Inc

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra inspires and unites our community through our music.

Arts & Culture
5
Indianapolis - Marion County Public Library Foundation Inc

Partner with donors to enrich lives, foster lifelong learning and engage our diverse community through the indianapolis public library.

Education
6
Bristol Riverside Theatre Co Inc

To engage audiences and artists alike with exceptional performances, inspired writing and superior productions that motivate us to think harder, to feel more deeply, to laugh more fully and to reflect on ourselves and the world in which we…

Arts & Culture
7
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
8
The Santa Fe Opera

To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…

Arts & Culture
9
Florida Children's Museum Inc

Curating the world for all children to explore

Arts & Culture
10
Fox Theatre Inc F/K/a Atlanta Landmarks Inc

To preserve and share the fox theatre

Arts & Culture
11
The Independent Shakespeare Co Inc

We bring los angeles together through exuberant, surprising productions of classical plays as well as new works. we address the inequity of access to the performing arts through free and low-cost programming. we create theater that is…

Arts & Culture
12
Sacramento Zoological Society

The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Naples Players Inc; the most unlike its peers is Books for Collier Kids 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OINKING ACRES FARM RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC: $50,000 · AnimalsOINKING ACRES FARM RESCUE & SANCTUARY INCROSIE'S SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $50,000 · AnimalsROSIE'S SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER INCFriends of Ferdinand Inc: $50,000 · OtherFriends of Ferdinand IncIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSt Lukes: $4,800 · OtherSt LukesIndianapolis Opera Company: $12,500 · Arts & CultureIndianapolis Op…Newfields Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNewfields IncTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NAPLES PLAY…GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureGULFSHORE PLAYH…ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · HealthBOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC: $1,000 · EducationBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $1,000 · Education
Animals$100,000Other$63,300Arts & Culture$26,500Health$4,000Education$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOINKING ACRES FARM RESCUE & SANCTUARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetROSIE'S SOUTHSIDE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetIndianapolis Opera Company: $12,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNewfields Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

Lilly Endowment IncNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lilly Endowment IncIN13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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