· Private foundation
Ceres 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 $10k84 grants · $248k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| IJ INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| FIRE FDN FOR INDIV RTS IN ED | $25,000 |
| CRC CAP RESEARCH CENTER | $20,000 |
| STEPPING STONES MONTESSORI | $20,000 |
| MPI MOVING PIX INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| ORCHARD VILLAGE | $15,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $10,000 |
| CAMP HIGHLANDS FOR BOYS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHARLEVOIX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE WHITTIER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY | $10,000 |
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, $357k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
144 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 17 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DMDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +89%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +57%
- OVORCHARD VILLAGE9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- FFIREone grant, 2024 · $20k
- MPMOVING PIX INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $18k
- AUALS UNITED GREATER CHICAGOgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
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…
How this is measured
127 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. 127 of the 217 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WHITTIER PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Charlevoix County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ATL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
- Who funds THE SIMON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Camp Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon River Guides Inc ↗
- Who funds The Place ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INSIDE OUT YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Oleson Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Baxter International Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ceres Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ceres Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
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