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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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$510k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

6
’20
8
’21
15
’22
17
’23
59
’24
95
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$6.7MInternational$4.5MArts & Culture$821kHealth$599kReligion$332kPhilanthropy$314kHuman Services$187kRecreation & Sports$128kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $510k
$15,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC$100,000
CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART$85,000
PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL$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
THE COMMERICAL CLUB OF CHICAGO$50,000
THE MOUNT SINAI CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION INC$50,000
UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION$50,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $50k → 8%GIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $2k → 13%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 12%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%THE KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC: $15k → 13%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 17%THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $13k → 17%FRIENDS OF THE MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $3k → 15%NY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC: $3k → 17%MATRICULATE INC: $150k → 17%NATIONAL RUNAWAY SWITCHBOARD: $15k → 14%MATRICULATE INC: $150k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC: $10k → 17%MATRICULATE INC: $15k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 47 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
16

Total granted

$6.1M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+19%

Still filing today

91%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • TS
    THRIVE SCHOLARS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +35%
  • TL
    THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $478k · revenue +24%
  • University of Chicago
    3× · 2020–2022 · $431k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +15%
  • MF
    MACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $333k · revenue -94%
  • CB
    College Board
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +13%
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
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
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
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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5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
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
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Fordham University

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.

Education
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
New York School of Interior Design

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…

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

133 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. 133 of the 153 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/133
Grantees still filing
57/133
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THRIVE SCHOLARS: $1,225,200 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARSCornell University: $500,000 · EducationCornell UniversityTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $477,500 · EducationTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGOUniversity of Chicago: $430,706 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoEDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY: $400,000 · EducationEDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAYFrancis W Parker School: $365,000 · EducationFrancis W Parker SchoolCollege Board: $250,000 · EducationSCHOOLHOUSEWORLD INC: $250,000 · EducationTHE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC: $210,000 · EducationMIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $205,800 · Education+35 more: $1,259,000 · Education+35 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $4,500,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICATHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $174,793 · Philanthropy+6 more: $132,000 · PhilanthropyGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNI…CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART: $185,000 · OtherCONVENT OF THE SA…CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $116,950 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT…PALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $110,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDA INC ST PHILIPS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $90,000 · Other+52 more: $1,130,261 · Other+52 moreMATRICULATE INC: $315,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 · Human Services+8 more: $62,000 · Human ServicesLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $171,000 · Arts & CultureCEDILLE CHICAGO NFP: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Symphony Orchestra: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureVIZCAYA MUSEUM AND GARDENS TRUST INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $19,000 · Arts & CultureMACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $333,000 · InternationalINDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $15,000 · InternationalBusiness Council for International Understanding Inc: $15,000 · InternationalCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 · InternationalMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $75,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC: $30,000 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $30,000 · HealthTeam Bright Side Inc: $30,000 · HealthBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc: $25,000 · HealthThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $25,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $15,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB CHICAGO: $15,000 · HealthGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 · HealthCURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER: $15,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $15,000 · HealthJOYDEW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $15,000 · HealthDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC: $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · Health
Education$5,573,206Philanthropy$4,806,793Other$2,132,211Human Services$452,000Arts & Culture$425,000International$378,000Health$370,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $4,500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $1,225,200 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCornell University: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $477,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $430,706 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONSUPERHIGHWAY: $400,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $365,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMACGILLIVRAY FREEMAN FILMS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $333,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetMATRICULATE INC: $315,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCollege Board: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOLHOUSEWORLD INC: $250,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC: $210,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $205,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $174,793 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $171,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALMER TRINITY PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $110,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCEDILLE CHICAGO NFP: $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetBAY RIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetBoys Hope Girls Hope of NY Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE C MARSHALL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $49,575 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SQUARED NETWORK: $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WHARTON INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAYA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUBLIC INTEREST FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN QUEENS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTeam Bright Side Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $25,000 over 1y, 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 Express Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…Credit Suisse America…The New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationJewish Communal FundPinkerton FoundationJohn S and James L Kn…The Miami Foundation …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Youth Improving Non-P…
American Express FoundationNY33.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Citadel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Citadel Foundation 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 153 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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