Massachusetts · Private foundation
Cedar Tree Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $9.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 119
- Grants FY2024
- 94
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,664,075
- Organizations funded a year
- 86 to 95
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 32
- Total assets, FY2024
- $86M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Cedar Tree Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 104 | $9.1M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 94 | $9.3M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $8.0M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 86 | $6.9M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 86 | $11M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Society for Conservation Biology | $8,614,475 | 5 | 99% |
| Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc | $1,755,000 | 4 | 58% |
| Practical Farmers of Iowa | $880,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Center for Civic Policy | $800,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Evkids Inc | $700,000 | 5 | 27% |
| Land Stewardship Project | $680,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Piikani Lodge Health Institute | $635,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Habitable | $630,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Center for Environmental Health | $630,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Environmental Working Group | $630,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 138 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cedar Tree Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 137 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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Common Counsel Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · Clif Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · Barr Foundation · Movement Strategy Center
How this is measured
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About Cedar Tree Foundation
- How much does Cedar Tree Foundation give?
- Cedar Tree Foundation reported 119 grants totaling $9,205,505 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 86 and 95 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Cedar Tree Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (51%), Health (8%), Education (7%).
- Who are Cedar Tree Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Society for Conservation Biology ($8.6M), Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc ($1.8M), Practical Farmers of Iowa ($880k).
- Does Cedar Tree Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cedar Tree Foundation 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 Cedar Tree Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Patagoniaorg, Common Counsel Foundation.
- Where is Cedar Tree Foundation based?
- Cedar Tree Foundation is based in MA.
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