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The Cerimon Fund Nma

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$194k
Granted FY2026still arriving
5
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Education$680kArts & Culture$402kPublic Safety & Disaster$900Animals$850
02FY2026 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
$21,400
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEACHERS AND WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC$80,000
THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL$74,666
VASSAR COLLEGE$21,400
ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL$17,063
WESTOVER SCHOOL$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%VASSAR COLLEGE: $21k → 9%TEACHERS AND WRITERS COLLABORATIVE: $82k → 20%READING IS FUNDAMENTAL: $25k → 14%WESTOVER SCHOOL: $1k → 18%LYME AMBULANCE ASSOC: $900 → 9%OUR COMPANIONS ANIMAL RESCUE: $850 → 11%ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $18k → 7%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $78k → 11%VASSAR COLLEGE: $13k → 9%TEACHERS AND WRITERS COLLABORATIVE: $80k → 20%WESTOVER SCHOOL: $1k → 18%ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $17k → 7%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $75k → 11%VASSAR COLLEGE: $12k → 9%TEACHERS AND WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $80k → 20%WESTOVER SCHOOL: $1k → 18%ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $16k → 7%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $70k → 11%TEACHERS AND WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $80k → 20%WESTOVER SCHOOL: $900 → 18%ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $16k → 7%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $68k → 11%TEACHERS AND WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $80k → 20%ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $15k → 7%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $67k → 11%ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $14k → 7%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $61k → 11%HOMEWORKS TRENTON: $90k → 11%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$966k · 5 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$966k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+161%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL
    6× · 2021–2026 · $419k · revenue +1%
  • TW
    TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC
    5× · 2021–2026 · $402k · revenue +5%
  • SG
    ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL
    6× · 2021–2026 · $95k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • HomeWorks Trentongraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue +161%
  • RI
    READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +67%
  • LA
    LYME AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $900 · revenue -2947%
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
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Suffield Academy

Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…

Education
4
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Lawrence School

Teach students using diverse learning strategies, ignite their potential and inspire academic, personal and social success

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7
The Laurence School

Laurence endeavors to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students in a diverse, inclusive and supportive learning community, where rich traditions and an innovative curriculum foster educational excellence and joy in…

Education
8
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
9
Trustees of Lawrence Academy At Groton Ma Corp

Lawrence academy recognizes you for who you are, inspires you to take responsibility for who you want to become, supports you as you learn, and empowers you to take action for the greater good.

Education
10
Williams Memorial Institute

To foster the intellectual, moral, creative, and physical development of students in preparation for college, lifelong learning, and active participation in an evolving world.

Education
11
Explorer West an Independent Middle School

We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.

Education
12
Dwight-Englewood School

The purpose of the corporation shall be to conduct and maintain dwight-englewood school for the education of students. the school shall promote student's passion for life-long learning as necessary to meet the challenges of a changing…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westover School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Reading Is Fundamental Inc. 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

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $419,031 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $95,263 · EducationST GEORGE'S SCHOOLHomeWorks Trenton: $90,350 · EducationHomeWorks TrentonREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $25,160 · Education+1 more: $3,900 · EducationTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $402,000 · Arts & CultureTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INCVASSAR COLLEGE: $45,900 · Other+1 more: $900 · OtherOUR COMPANIONS DOMESTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $850 · Animals
Education$633,704Arts & Culture$402,000Other$46,800Animals$850

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $419,031 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $402,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $95,263 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHomeWorks Trenton: $90,350 over 1y, 16% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $45,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $25,160 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTOVER SCHOOL INC: $3,900 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cerimon Fund Nma funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cerimon Fund Nma. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • HomeWorks Trenton: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to The Cerimon Fund Nma?

Find your warmest path to The Cerimon Fund Nma through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 9 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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