Florida · Private foundation
The Citadel Foundation
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.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of The Citadel Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Charities Aid Foundation America, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 95 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Citadel Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 59 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $510,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $53k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations The Citadel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 62 | $2.2M | 81% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $990k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $2.2M | 72% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $914k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $439k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thrive Scholars | $1,225,200 | 4 | 3% |
| Cornell University | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Latin School of Chicago | $477,500 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $430,706 | 3 | 0% |
| Educationsuperhighway | $400,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Francis W Parker School | $365,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Macgillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation | $333,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Matriculate Inc | $315,000 | 3 | 4% |
| College Board | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Schoolhouseworld Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 139 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($699k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Citadel Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: American Express Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Pinkerton Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children
How this is measured
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About The Citadel Foundation
- How much does The Citadel Foundation give?
- The Citadel Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $2,376,714 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Citadel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), International (32%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are The Citadel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Thrive Scholars ($1.2M), Cornell University ($500k), The Latin School of Chicago ($478k).
- Does The Citadel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Citadel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Citadel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Express Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is The Citadel Foundation based?
- The Citadel Foundation is based in FL.
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