· Private foundation
The Cambridge Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k86 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUKE'S WINGS | $21,940 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE | $4,000 |
| TENCO FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| 1ST FRIDAYS ART WALK OF FAIRFIELD INC | $2,500 |
| LIBERTY UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF SBL | $2,500 |
| DUET PARTNERS IN HEALTH & AGING | $2,000 |
| MAIN STREET FAIRFIELD | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $1,500 |
| WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| GREATER CLERMONT CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CARRY ON BAGS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- FFFOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING INC3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +99%
- MIMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +17%
- TWTHE WELL RESOURCE CENTER2× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- NHNEW HOPE FOR KIDS INCone grant, 2020 · $36k · revenue -16%
- JTJORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +12%
- IIINVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +91%
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tenderloin Tessie Holiday Dinners. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
185 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. 185 of the 302 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Fairfield Arts & Convention Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL PLANNING INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUKE'S WINGS ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds KIDS MATTER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE WELL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds IOWA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER FAIRFIELD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRFIELD PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Childcare Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WARTBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS IOWA 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: The Greater Jefferson County Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Washington County Riverboat Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · David L Lieb Foundation Inc · Rpc Inc Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Johnson County · Carmax Foundation · Bnsf Railway 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 The Cambridge Foundation Inc 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.
- Kessler Foundation Inc — 54% of income from government
- Ywca Delaware Inc — 50% of income from government
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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