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CFDA FOUNDATION INC
To promote and encourage fashion design talent and ability through exhibitions, awards, grants, scholarships, or otherwise for needy students and needy fashion designers.
$2.3M
Granted FY2024
43
Grants
6
Communities
$310k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of CFDA FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
sustainability innovationprofessional sustainabilityinnovation researchprofessional retailretail labprofessional accessoryaccessory innovation
2019
professional accessoryaccessory innovationhiv aidsreese cooperbusiness manufacturerschristopher johnjohn rogers
2020
business covidcovid reliefsolutionsachievebeyond policingpower policerights
2021
leadersasian pacificbusiness covidcovid relief
2022
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2023
business launchlaunch padpuppetsgirlsleadershipbusiness aapidiotima
2024
business manufactuirngpresley oldhambusiness aapiwiederhoeftconnor mcknight
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 43 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k28 grants · $668k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $310k
$35,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
- L'ENCHANTEUR$310,000
- GLORY APPAREL$179,315
- TRIMWORLD INC$177,006
- EMBROIDERY HOUSE & SONS II$137,826
- EMMELLE DESIGN$118,861
- WIEDERHOEFT LLC$110,000
- PHIPPS INTERNATIONAL LLC$110,000
- SUNRISE STUDIO INC$82,954
- SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN$75,000
- RAINBOW LEATHER INC$71,011
- AREA STUDIO LLC$50,000
- DREXEL UNIVERSITY$50,000
- DIOTIMA INC$50,000
- THE NEW SCHOOL$50,000
- COLLINA STRADA LLC$50,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.9M · 78 repeat orgs$9.7M to everyone else
78 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
78
171
Total granted
$8.9M
$8.7M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+14%
+110%
Still filing today
13%
10%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $988k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationCivil RightsArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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
- TNTHE NEW SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $471k · revenue +14%
- SCSAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN5× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +47%
- SOSCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE CHICAGO SULLIVAN CENTER3× · 2020–2023 · $125k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IICON360one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -46% · 96% of their budget
- TLTELFAR LLCone grant, 2017 · $442k
- NGNOBLE GIFT PACKAGINGone grant, 2020 · $440k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Columbia College
Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Education
2
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
3
The Rockefeller University
A world-renowned center for research and graduate education.
Education
4
Art Center College of Design
Art center college of design operates an independent, four-year curriculum to educate artists and designers in communication arts and industrial design that extends its legacy of professional art and design practice and enables its…
Education
5
University of Chicago
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Education
6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
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8
Museum of Arts and Design
The mission of the museum of arts and design (mad) is to collect, display, and interpret objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. in its exhibitions and educational programs, the museum…
Arts & Culture
9
McColl Center for Art Innovation
We champion contemporary artists and spark creative experiences for positive community impact.
Arts & Culture
10
New York Institute of Technology
We are committed to educating the next generation of leaders and inspiring innovation. (see sch o)
Education
11
The University of the Arts
Advancing human creativity by educating interdisciplinary artists, performers, makers, & writers.
Education
12
Illinois Institute of Technology
To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/264
the rest of the field
11%
11,524/100,515
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.
05the grantee network
27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$17,218,443Education$1,037,599Civil Rights$135,000Arts & Culture$75,000International$60,000Youth Development$55,000Human Services$40,000
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.
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.
Artisans Guild of AmericaNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Artisans Guild of America · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 organisation CFDA 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ICON360.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 851063640 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ICON360, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 96% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Cfda Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Cfda Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines