· Public charity
Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc
Sponsorship of donor advised funds and the making of grants and contributions to other qualified 501(c)(3) organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 219 grants below total $13,466,555 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,103,377 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $636,822 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $143k
- $10k–50k151 grants · $3.0M
- $50k–250k36 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+12 grants · $6.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $1,100,000 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $1,025,000 |
| WE STAND WITH CHRIST CAMPAIGN | $800,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $720,000 |
| ORLANDO BAPTIST CHURCH | $536,500 |
| MOORE HUMANE SOCIETY | $500,000 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $481,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $330,000 |
| MILWAUKEE FILM | $269,500 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $260,000 |
| MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS | $250,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $225,000 |
| CHILDREN'S WISCONSIN | $207,450 |
| JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
265 repeat relationships — 155 still active in FY2024, 110 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MUMarquette University8× · 2017–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +46%
- SHSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +84%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH7× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GCGRACE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $1.4M
- HCHOPE CHURCH INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- TWTHE WILL KING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -86% · 77% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fifteenand Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
404 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 404 of the 513 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds We Stand With Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MOORE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS HIGH INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas Family Foundation Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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