· Private foundation
Cedar Hill Foundation
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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $470k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUCANFREEUS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $75,000 |
| THE PERCH MUSIC & ARTS WORKSHOP | $70,000 |
| COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY | $65,000 |
| COX SCIENCE CENTER & AQUARIUM | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE HALO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $45,000 |
| THE RIVER SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| THE CATHEDRAL SCHOOL OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE | $30,000 |
| RAIR (RECYCLED ARTIST IN RESIDENCY) | $30,000 |
| HORIZONS AT NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| EDESIA INC | $20,000 |
| AN OPEN BOOK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY9× · 2017–2025 · $585k · revenue +9%
- YFYOUCANFREEUS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $565k · revenue +88%
- CSCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $310k · revenue +981%
Funded once
- ENEVERY NATIONS CHURCHES INCone grant, 2018 · $75k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $60k
- NCNEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL HORIZONS ENRICHMENT PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 48 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 SARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds YOUCANFREEUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds The River School ↗
- Who funds AN OPEN BOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DC KINCARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Greensgrow Inc ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HALO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFEDIRECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RAIR INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORE NYC INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTERS CMT4B3 RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS AIR AND SPACE MUSEUMINC ↗
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: All the Little Ones Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cedar Hill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cedar Hill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 14% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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