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The Cadenza Charitable Trust

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10M
Granted FY2019
2
Grants FY2019
2
Organizations funded FY2019
0%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$6,798,797
Largest grant, FY2019
$6,798,797
Organizations funded a year
2 to 23
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 0% of the organizations The Cadenza Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
EducationArts & CultureFood & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20192$10M0%
FY201823$67M57%
FY201713$1.4Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$54MArts & Culture$10MPublic Benefit$8.7MHealth$3.3MAnimals$500kPhilanthropy$426kInternational$425kHuman Services$275kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc$10,000,000167%
Duke University$9,750,00010%
One Acre Fund$150,00020%
The Fred Hollows Foundation$150,000220%
Living Goods$125,00021%
Village Enterprise Fund$125,00022%
Harlem Academy$100,00021%
Rye Country Day School$100,00010%
St Benedicts Preparatory School Inc$100,0002n/a
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc$50,00010%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of The Cadenza Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc$10,000,000167%
Duke University$9,750,00010%
One Acre Fund$150,00020%
The Fred Hollows Foundation$150,000220%
Living Goods$125,00021%
Village Enterprise Fund$125,00022%
Harlem Academy$100,00021%
Rye Country Day School$100,00010%
St Benedicts Preparatory School Inc$100,0002n/a
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc$50,00010%
Caritas of Port Chester Inc$50,00013%
The Hotchkiss School$25,00010%
Yale University$25,0001n/a

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($57M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Cadenza Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Carolina Symphony Society Inc: $10,000,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetDuke University: $9,750,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOne Acre Fund: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fred Hollows Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetLiving Goods: $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVillage Enterprise Fund: $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHarlem Academy: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRye Country Day School: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Employment Opportunities Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCaritas of Port Chester Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Hotchkiss School: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA11.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Cadenza Charitable Trust

How much does The Cadenza Charitable Trust give?
The Cadenza Charitable Trust reported 2 grants totaling $10,016,810 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Cadenza Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (69%), Arts & Culture (13%), Public Benefit (11%).
Who are The Cadenza Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: North Carolina Symphony Society Inc ($10M), Duke University ($9.8M), One Acre Fund ($150k).
Does The Cadenza Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Cadenza Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Cadenza Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The Cadenza Charitable Trust based?
The Cadenza Charitable Trust is based in NY.

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 28 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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