· Private foundation
The Cedars Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $71,500 |
| RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE | $40,000 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $40,000 |
| SEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS | $40,000 |
| THE COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THE CONFERENCE BOARD | $25,000 |
| SHENANDOAH VALLEY CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| LSB LEAKEY FDTN FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO MANS ORIGINS BEHAVIOR AND SURVIVAL | $15,000 |
| THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN TRUST FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WATERFORD FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| RICHARD III SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| SOCIETY OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE | $2,000 |
| THE CARTER CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCY5× · 2019–2024 · $311k · revenue +58%
Resources for the Future Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +21%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $151k · revenue +231%
Funded once
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +12%- TCTHE CONFERENCE BOARD COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CCEDone grant, 2019 · $25k
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
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How this is measured
80 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. 80 of the 142 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
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 OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Resources for the Future Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds SEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds LSB LEAKEY FDTN FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO HUMAN ORIGINS BEHAVIOR AND SURVIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CONSERVATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR INTEGRITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMER TR FOR OXFORD UNIV & EASTMAN 067381-000 ↗
- Who funds Waterford Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHARD III SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NISKANEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE ↗
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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cedars Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cedars Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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