· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +224%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
185 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cambridge Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cambridge Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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