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The Cadahemark Foundation at a glance

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The Cadahemark 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.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$281kHuman Services$194kPhilanthropy$182kHealth$5kEnvironment$1k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$998k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION$50,000
ORKEESWA INC$30,000
LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK$30,000
ST AGNES SCHOOL$15,000
LITTLE PEAKS INC$7,500
KEENE CENTRAL SCHOOL$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA: $30k → 16%ORKEESWA INC: $44k → 10%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA: $20k → 16%ORKEESWA INC: $40k → 10%ORKEESWA INC: $30k → 10%ORKEESWA INC: $30k → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$467k · 5 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$467k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+2%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • OI
    ORKEESWA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $194k · revenue -16%
  • LF
    LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $152k · revenue +20%
  • SA
    ST AGNES SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $103k

Funded once

  • CH
    CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -22%
  • NH
    NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +2%
  • KV
    Keene Valley Library Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +60%
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
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
2
Adk Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Kew-Forest School Inc

The Kew-Forest School is an independent,co-educational college preparatory school for students in grades Pre-K through 12. Kew Forests mission is to provide an academically challenging college-preparatory education to a culturally diverse…

Education
4
Avery Coonley School

The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.

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5
The Park School of Buffalo

The school engages the student in a diverse and creative community that nurtures the joy and responsibility of active learning in all, from our youngest learners to our graduates, who leave with the skills essential to college success and…

Education
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
Newcomb Historical Museum

The organization was formed to safeguard and share existing and future collections related to the social, cultural, and economic history of the high peaks adirondack region in and around the township of newcomb in essex county, new york.

Arts & Culture
8
High Meadow School Inc

See schedule oto operate as a nonpublic school for grades pre-kindergarten through eighth. its' mission is to nurture each child's love of learning by engaging their intrinsic curiosity in nature, one another, play, and creative…

Education
9
The Town School Inc

The town school is committed to elementary coeducation, serving students in nursery through eighth grade. as we embrace high academic and ethical standards for each student, we are guided by our school motto, let there be joy in learning.…

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10
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
11
Keene Endowment Association

Keene Endowment Association (KEA) helps donors to provide scholarships for Keene State College (KSC) students and resources to enhance their education. The KEA Board also helps to give donors the assurance that their philanthropy will make…

Education
12
The Kessler School

Private Infant PreK and Elementary Education

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adirondack Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Lycee Francais De New York. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $181,500 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK FOUNDATIONHigh Peaks Education Foundation: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHigh Peaks Education FoundationORKEESWA INC: $194,000 · Human ServicesORKEESWA INCLYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $152,000 · EducationLYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORKLITTLE PEAKS INC: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationST AGNES SCHOOL: $102,500 · OtherST AGNES SCHOOL+1 more: $3,000 · OtherCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$196,500Human Services$194,000Education$160,000Other$105,500Health$5,000Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetORKEESWA INC: $194,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $181,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK: $152,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHigh Peaks Education Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetLITTLE PEAKS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeene Valley Library Association: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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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 The Cadahemark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cadahemark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 10 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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