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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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THRIVE SCHOLARS | $510,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $141,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $115,000 |
| THE CUSHMAN SCHOOL | $105,000 |
| MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC | $100,000 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $85,000 |
| CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART | $85,000 |
| THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO | $77,500 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC | $72,088 |
| THE SUTTON TRUST | $59,126 |
| STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF NY INC | $50,000 |
| BAY RIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE MOUNT SINAI CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $452k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
47 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 85 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- TSTHRIVE SCHOLARS4× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +35%
- TLTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO5× · 2020–2024 · $478k · revenue +24%
University of Chicago3× · 2020–2022 · $431k · revenue +52%
Funded once
Cornell Universityone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +15%- MFMACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $333k · revenue -94%
- CBCollege Boardone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +13%
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership With Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saya Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
133 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. 133 of the 153 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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds MACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATRICULATE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSEWORLD INC ↗
- Who funds College Board ↗
- Who funds THE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds GROUP FOR THE EAST END INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds CEDILLE CHICAGO NFP ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BAY RIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
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: 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
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 Citadel Foundation 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.
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- Feeding Florida Inc — 32% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Cushman School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Joydew Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pine Crest Preparatory School 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.
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