· Private foundation
The Cedar Street Foundation Jh1204
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k19 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER | $100,000 |
| THE PARK SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA - MASSACHUSETTS | $50,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| 1882 HOUSE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| SHERRILL HOUSE INC | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $30,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON CAPE COD | $30,000 |
| THE STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| ONEGOAL | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHERS QUALITY | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $375k · revenue +132%- CFCHORDOMA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +158%
- FOFRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +282%
Funded once
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +15%- GCGREENWICH COUNTY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $25k
DANA HALL SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +28%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Whitehead institute forges new frontiers in science, uncovering insights today that unlock the potential of tomorrow. our advances in genetics and genomics are now enabling us to tackle the complexities of life with unprecedented depth and…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Epiphany School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 40 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
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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CHORDOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds BES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SHERRILL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UP EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds THE 1882 HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Barr Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Cedar Street Foundation Jh1204 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Sherrill House Inc — 31% of income from government
- Up Education Network — 22% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation 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.