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The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt

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.

$11k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$345k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23
AnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$11k40%
FY20237$18k100%
FY20211$2k0%
FY20209$43k33%
FY201918$35k33%
FY201831$65k45%
FY201723$58kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$73kArts & Culture$52kHousing & Shelter$25kInternational$15kEducation$15kPhilanthropy$14kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
NV
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBig Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: $36,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNew Heritage Theatre Group: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetEdge and Center Inc the Church: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSag Harbor Partnership Inc: $6,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFresh Air Fund: $6,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDancing Dreams: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLonghouse Reserve: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBideawee Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEvelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc: $3,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Inc Co Susan Mead: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Inclusive Sailing: $2,500 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Benjamin Private School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Rescue Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJustWorld International Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrooklyn Academy of Music Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDesign Trust for Public Space Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEverytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Edge Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFighting Chance Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTiger Preservation Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLion Habitat Ranch Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe a Woodner Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Tap Dance Foundation inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBatonga Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

The New York Community TrustNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt

How much does The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt give?
The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt reported 5 grants totaling $10,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (31%), Arts & Culture (22%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
Who are The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc ($36k), New Heritage Theatre Group ($20k), Edge and Center Inc the Church ($10k).
Does The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt 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 Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt based?
The Cygnet Foundation Inc Attn Raymond Merritt is based in NY.

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 56 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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