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The Cedar Street Foundation Jh1204 at a glance

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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.

$805k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.2MHealth$1.2MAnimals$405kScience & Tech$275kYouth Development$270kArts & Culture$240kEnvironment$80kEmployment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER$100,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA - MASSACHUSETTS$50,000
1882 HOUSE FOUNDATION$50,000
THE PARK SCHOOL$50,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$50,000
DEERFIELD ACADEMY$50,000
FRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$40,000
SHERRILL HOUSE INC$40,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$30,000
THE STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION$30,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$30,000
MASS AUDUBON CAPE COD$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
EPIPHANY SCHOOL$25,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHERS QUALITY$25,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $30k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $20k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $20k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $20k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $20k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $10k → 8%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 33 repeat orgs$300k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
4

Total granted

$4.8M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+28%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $375k · revenue +162%
  • CF
    CHORDOMA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +158%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +282%

Funded once

  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +15%
  • GC
    GREENWICH COUNTY DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • DANA HALL SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +28%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Bentley University

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…

Education
4
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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5
Phillips Exeter Academy

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…

Education
6
Western New England University

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…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
8
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

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…

Health
9
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

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…

Education
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
12
Pembroke Hill School

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."

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Epiphany School Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 40 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BES INC: $250,000 · EducationBES INCFRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $215,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCH…THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $210,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INCBOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $185,000 · EducationBOSTON SCHOOLS FUNDTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $155,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGESTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · EducationSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INCUP EDUCATION NETWORK: $125,000 · EducationUP EDUCATION NETWORKMILTON ACADEMY: $105,000 · EducationMILTON ACADEMYCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · Education+4 more: $175,000 · Education+4 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $375,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Instit…CHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $315,000 · HealthCHORDOMA FOUNDATIONSHERRILL HOUSE INC: $165,000 · HealthSHERRILL HOUSE INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $145,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEA…WINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · HealthWINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUND…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthTEACH FOR AMERICA - MASSACHUSETTS: $400,000 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA - MASSACHUS…Individual grant recipient: $130,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASS AUDUBON CAPE COD: $90,000 · OtherMASS AUDUBON CAPE CODMASS AUDUBON LONG PASTURE WILDLIFE: $85,000 · OtherMASS AUDUBON LONG PASTURE WIL…NATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHERS QUALITY: $70,000 · OtherMASS AUDUBON LONG PASTURE: $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherTENACITY INC: $105,000 · OtherTENACITY INCMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $80,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY…+3 more: $70,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $275,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF S…THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC: $190,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHATHAM…THE 1882 HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 1882 HO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $125,000 · AnimalsCAPE ABILITIES INC: $120,000 · Human Services
Education$1,635,000Health$1,140,000Other$1,320,000Arts & Culture$515,000Youth Development$240,000Animals$125,000Human Services$120,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $375,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $315,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $275,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBES INC: $250,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $215,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $210,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC: $190,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetBOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $185,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $165,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSHERRILL HOUSE INC: $165,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $125,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUP EDUCATION NETWORK: $125,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCAPE ABILITIES INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTENACITY INC: $105,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONEGOAL: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 1882 HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANA HALL SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SARCOIDOSIS RESEARCH: $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Fidelity FoundationBarr FoundationAmerican Tower Corpor…Morgan Stanley Global…The US Charitable Gif…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Boston Foundation IncMA18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cedar Street Foundation Jh1204 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cedar Street Foundation Jh1204. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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