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Edward T Cone 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $580k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Princeton Symphony Orchestra | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| Salzburg Global Seminar | $200,000 |
| The New Group | $120,000 |
| Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey | $60,000 |
| Bogliasco Foundation | $20,000 |
| The Wooster Group | $20,000 |
| Ebb & Flow Arts | $10,000 |
| McCarter Theatre | $10,000 |
| Young Audiences New Jersey | $10,000 |
| Part of the Solution | $5,000 |
| Institute for Advanced Study | $5,000 |
| Princeton Singers | $5,000 |
| National Shingles Foundation | $5,000 |
| American Composers Orchesra | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $970k · revenue +87%
SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +16%- NJNEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA2× · 2022–2023 · $400k · revenue +26%
Funded once
PEOPLE AND STORIES GENTE Y CUENTOSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +35%- NYNew York Public Radio - WQXRone grant, 2022 · $5k
The Trustees of Princeton Universityone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -11%
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.
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
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…
Laws of the state of new jersey. the mission of the organization is to perform choral masterworks and other works of the choral literature with energy, passion, and uncompromising artistic excellence. the organization believes in the power…
Princeton ballet society's mission is to nurture a lifelong love of dance and lift the collective spirit through excellent, relevant, and accessible artistic and educational programs, with a focus on classical ballet.
High quality professional chamber-music concerts.
To commission and perform new music
Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.
Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…
NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…
To enrich the communities we serve through a multi-dimensional, world-class performing arts summer festival. We create programs that excite, inform, inspire, and invite discovery and engagement as we aspire to become a nationally…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is The Bogliasco Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 39 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
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 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOGLIASCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EBB & FLOW ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE WOOSTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SHINGLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PART OF THE SOLUTION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Princeton Future Inc ↗
- Who funds FROM THE TOP INC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey ↗
- Who funds Capital Harmony Works Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE AND STORIES GENTE Y CUENTOS ↗
- Who funds TAKE DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds TRENTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY 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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation · Rita Allen Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation
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 Edward T Cone Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra — 21% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey — 8% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- People and Stories Gente Y Cuentos — 7% of income from government
- From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc — 1% 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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