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La Fondation Cuvelier

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.

$340k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$868kEducation$439kArts & Culture$227kCommunity Improvement$142kHuman Services$36kHealth$33kCrime & Legal$15kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST$100,000
AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$35,000
THE KNIGHTS$25,000
MALOTO$25,000
NYSPCC$15,000
1 FOR THE PLANET$10,000
THE DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY$10,000
NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS$5,000
NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS$2,500
CARY INSTITUTE$2,500
STORM KING ART CENTER$2,350
PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION$2,079
BALLET COLLECTIVE$2,000
NEW HOUSE SANTA BARBARA$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREATER GOODS (OJAI): $10k → 10%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
DC
FL

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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 26 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
32

Total granted

$1.8M
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+6%

Still filing today

65%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST
    3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +42%
  • MI
    MALOTO INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $148k · revenue +48%
  • GA
    GRAMEEN AMERICA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $140k · revenue +598%

Funded once

  • DS
    DARDEN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • MF
    MUSIC FORWARD DBA THE KNIGHTS
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • MF
    MUSIC FORWARD
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +16%

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
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
4
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

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

7
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

8
White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

Arts & Culture
9
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
10
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
11
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
12
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ryan Mcelroy Childrens Cancer Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Innisfree 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Substance Abuse TreatmentUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Cancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsProfessional Ballet Compani…Land Conservation Organizat…Veteran Support ServicesClassical Music EnsemblesIndependent K-8 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%56%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,531

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.

04the grantee network

33 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $172,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientONE PERCENT FOR THE PLANET — $155,000 · OtherONE PERCENT FOR THE PLANETUVA DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — $85,000 · OtherUVA DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESSTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC — $52,720 · OtherTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INCTHE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC — $37,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $35,000 · OtherDARDEN SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherTHE KNIGHTS — $27,000 · Other+40 more — $200,569 · Other+40 moreAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $600,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST+1 more — $5,500 · Food & NutritionMALOTO INC — $148,000 · EducationMALOTO INCTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC — $127,600 · EducationTHE BERKSHIRE S…+1 more — $4,444 · EducationGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $140,000 · Community ImprovementDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $85,000 · EnvironmentCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $11,500 · EnvironmentWETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentBALLETCOLLECTIVE INC — $27,180 · Arts & CultureMUSIC FORWARD — $15,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY — $4,000 · Arts & CultureYELLOW BARN INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureSTORM KING ART CENTER — $2,350 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesGREATER GOODS OJAI — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$799,789Food & Nutrition$605,500Education$280,044Community Improvement$140,000Environment$106,500Arts & Culture$52,530Human Services$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $600,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMALOTO INC — $148,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $140,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC — $127,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $85,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC — $52,720 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC — $37,500 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBALLETCOLLECTIVE INC — $27,180 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMUSIC FORWARD — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJERICHO PROJECT — $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER GOODS OJAI — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSKY HIGH FARM INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEW HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEXODUS SCHOOL — $4,444 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRYAN MCELROY CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION — $3,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION — $3,579 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNISFREE FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOW BARN INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER — $2,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWLOHA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CONNECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,040 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAZOM INC — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST
  • Who funds MALOTO INC
  • Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC
  • Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC
  • Who funds THE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC
  • Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BALLETCOLLECTIVE INC
  • Who funds MUSIC FORWARD
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
  • Who funds CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC
  • Who funds JERICHO PROJECT
  • Who funds GREATER GOODS OJAI
  • Who funds SKY HIGH FARM INC
  • Who funds WETHERSFIELD FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEW HOUSE
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC
  • Who funds EXODUS SCHOOL
  • Who funds ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY
  • Who funds RYAN MCELROY CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY17.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Anna Carolina and Soo Kim Foundation · Thanksgiving Foundation Bessemer Trust Company Na · Hathaway Family Foundation · Carson Family Charitable Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 organization La Fondation Cuvelier 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Nxthvn Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to La Fondation Cuvelier?

Find your warmest path to La Fondation Cuvelier 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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