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Nicole Laurel Cuddy Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Public Benefit$72kHuman Services$14kHealth$14kEducation$13kArts & Culture$12kReligion$10kPhilanthropy$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$172k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION$20,000
JUDICIAL WATCH$10,000
FLCCC ALLIANCE$5,000
ALASKA POLICY FORUM$1,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000
ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF ALASKA$1,000
PROJECT VERITAS$1,000
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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF ALASKA: $1k → 10%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

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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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$97k · 6 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$97k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+27%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Public BenefitHealthEducationFood & NutritionReligionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +62%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $21k · revenue +40%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • MR
    MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER OF ALASKA
    one grant, 2019 · $11k
  • AC
    ALASKA CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -3%
  • LF
    LUCKY FIN PROJECT
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -35%

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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
7
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
8
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
9
American Productivity & Quality Center Inc

See Schedule O. The mission of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) is to educate and broadly share information with people and organizations around the world to improve productivity and quality by:- Discovering, researching…

Community Improvement
10
American Constitution Society for Law & Policy

The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…

Education
11
Texas Tribune Inc

The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…

Education
12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Texas Organic Research Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 23 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $50,300 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATIONJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $21,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC+2 more — $700 · Public BenefitMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER OF ALASKA — $11,000 · OtherMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER…FLCCC ALLIANCE — $5,000 · OtherFLCCC ALLIANCEARMED SERVICES YMCA OF ALASKA — $3,000 · OtherARMED SERVICES YMCA O…WORLDVIEW MATTERS — $2,500 · OtherWORLDVIEW MATTERSANCHORAGE RESCUE MISSION — $2,500 · OtherANCHORAGE RESCUE MISS…NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK FOUNDATION — $1,000 · OtherPROJECT VERITAS — $1,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska — $1,000 · Other+1 more — $100 · OtherALASKA CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $11,000 · HealthALASKA CHILDREN'S S…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $9,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS …LUCKY FIN PROJECT — $5,000 · HealthLUCKY FIN PROJECTALASKA POLICY FORUM INC — $11,500 · EducationALASKA PO…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationPRAGER UN…+1 more — $200 · EducationMarked Men for Christ Inc — $5,000 · ReligionUNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTexas Organic Research Center Inc — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Public Benefit$72,000Other$28,100Health$25,000Education$12,700Religion$5,000Philanthropy$5,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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 budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $50,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA POLICY FORUM INC — $11,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetALASKA CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUCKY FIN PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMarked Men for Christ Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLDVIEW MATTERS — $2,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTexas Organic Research Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Institute — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $200 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.

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 Alaska Community FoundationAK15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Nicole Laurel Cuddy 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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How do I get to Nicole Laurel Cuddy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nicole Laurel Cuddy 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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