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Cremona 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.

$666k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.3MHealth$851kArts & Culture$453kInternational$300kCommunity Improvement$300kEducation$201kFood & Nutrition$1kHuman Services$1k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAMUSA NONPROFIT CORPORATION$300,000
MYRIAD USA$150,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$100,000
LET'S WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION$50,000
THE CONCERT TRUCK PERFORMING ARTS INC$40,000
VALLEY OF THE MOON MUSIC$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LAMUSA NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $300k → 10%BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $625k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%VALLEY OF THE MOON MUSIC: $40k → 9%UCSF FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%CHILDRENS ORCHESTRA SOCIETY: $60k → 6%THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $1k → 9%FRIENDS OF THE SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY: $10k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $150k → 17%THE KNIGHTS: $25k → 20%THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%STRATTON FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%MID ATLANTIC ARTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%BANK OF AMERICAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $515k → 16%VALLEY OF THE MOON MUSIC: $25k → 9%UCSF FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY: $20k → 6%FRIENDS OF THE SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY: $3k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%THE KNIGHTS: $20k → 20%THE CONCERT TRUCK PERFORMING ARTS INC: $40k → 19%BANK OF AMERICAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $400k → 16%VALLEY OF THE MOON MUSIC: $25k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%THE KNIGHTS: $10k → 20%THE CONCERT TRUCK PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20k → 19%BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $395k → 16%VALLEY OF THE MOON MUSIC: $20k → 9%LET'S WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%THE CONCERT TRUCK PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20k → 19%BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $350k → 16%VALLEY OF THE MOON MUSIC: $15k → 9%FRACTURED ATLAS: $10k → 17%VALLEY OF THE MOON MUSIC: $15k → 9%HSS SPORTS MEDICINE INSTITUTE: $150k → 17%HARMONY PROGRAM: $20k → 17%HARMONY PROGRAM: $20k → 17%HARMONY PROGRAM: $10k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
MD
DE
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 36% of Cremona Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 8% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 3%.

Cremona Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 10 repeat orgs$640k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$2.0M
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    2× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +22%
  • TH
    THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +62%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • HS
    HSS SPORTS MEDICINE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +57%
  • MA
    MID ATLANTIC ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +30%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BANK OF AMERICAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $915,000 · OtherBANK OF AMERICAN CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDLAMUSA NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $300,000 · OtherLAMUSA NONPROFIT CORPORATIONHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATIONHSS SPORTS MEDICINE INSTITUTE: $150,000 · OtherHSS SPORTS MEDICINE INSTITUTEVALLEY OF THE MOON MUSIC: $140,000 · OtherVALLEY OF THE MOON MUSICTHE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $80,000 · OtherCONCERT TRUCK PERFORMING ARTS INC: $80,000 · Other+3 more: $57,000 · OtherBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $1,370,000 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FDICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF C…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF M…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationMYRIAD USA INC: $300,000 · InternationalTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMID ATLANTIC ARTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthFeeding America: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,972,000Philanthropy$1,370,000Education$601,000International$300,000Arts & Culture$98,000Health$51,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $1,370,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $80,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMID ATLANTIC ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $13,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cremona Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cremona Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • Mid Atlantic Arts Inc: 66% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cremona Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cremona Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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