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The Gordon E and May R Cadwgan Charitable 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.

$196k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$15k
Largest
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.

Philanthropy$278kEducation$259kHealth$214kRecreation & Sports$168kInternational$160kHuman Services$86kPublic Safety & Disaster$81kAnimals$59kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $158k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
$6,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$779k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALPHA-1 FOUNDATION$15,000
IBIS CHARITIES FOUNDATION$13,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$8,000
DANA HALL SCHOOL - ANNUAL FUND$8,000
DANA HALL SCHOOL - UPPER SCHOOL CLASSROOM FUND$7,000
THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION - ADV DRESSAGE PRIZE$7,000
THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION - PATSY ALBERS AWARD FUND$7,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$6,500
SAVE THE CHILDREN$6,500
DIRECT RELIEF - IN MEMORY OF CAROL LAVELL$6,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$6,500
HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL - UKRAINE & TURKEY CRISIS$6,500
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$6,000
PLACE OF HOPE$6,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $2k → 13%MERCY CHEFS: $15k → 20%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $2k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $23k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $2k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $2k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $1k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%FAITH HOPE LOVE CHARITY INC: $6k → 11%FAITH HOPE LOVE CHARITY INC: $6k → 11%FAITH HOPE LOVE CHARITY INC: $6k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $6k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $6k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $6k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $6k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $5k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 36 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
21

Total granted

$1.2M
$146k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
Human ServicesInternationalHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IC
    Ibis Charities Foundation Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $215k · revenue +8% · 32% of their budget
  • AF
    ALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +26%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • MC
    MERCY CHEFS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • UF
    USA FOR UNHCR - UKRAINE RELIEF
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

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Farm Share Inc

A.farm share, inc. (the "organization") is a non-profit organization and was incorporated under the laws of the state of florida on july 8, 1992 as a 501c3 corporation that is tax-exempt under the provision of the internal revenue code.…

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
5
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
6
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
7
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
8
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
11
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding South Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

26 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. 26 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DANA HALL SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND: $74,621 · OtherDANA HALL SCHOOL ANNUAL FUNDTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION: $52,517 · OtherTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $33,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $33,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGE: $30,309 · OtherDANA HALL SCHOOL - RIDING CENTER FUND: $27,808 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION - PATSY ALBERS AWARD FD: $24,900 · OtherTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION - MICHAEL POULIN FOUNDATION: $23,980 · OtherTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION - THE GIFTED FUND: $23,980 · OtherBIG DOG RESCUE RANCH: $23,560 · Other+36 more: $323,882 · Other+36 moreIbis Charities Foundation Inc: $215,000 · PhilanthropyIbis Charities Fo…ALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC: $189,500 · HealthALPHA-1 FOUNDATIO…Vinceremos Riding Center Inc: $23,807 · HealthVinceremos Riding…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $63,250 · Human ServicesAmerican N…PLACE OF HOPE INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesPLACE OF H…FAITH-HOPE-LOVE-CHARITY INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesFAITH-HOPE…MERCY CHEFS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEF…THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $8,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDR…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $29,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,500 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $6,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL: $48,000 · EducationPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $24,886 · Animals
Other$696,557Philanthropy$215,000Health$214,307Human Services$135,750International$77,500Education$48,000Animals$24,886

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 budgetIbis Charities Foundation Inc: $215,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC: $189,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $63,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION: $52,517 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL: $48,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $30,309 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $29,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc: $24,886 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVinceremos Riding Center Inc: $23,807 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $19,967 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFAITH-HOPE-LOVE-CHARITY INC: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRVIEW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $12,978 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDOW DRESSERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemoryCare Inc: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds Ibis Charities Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
  • Who funds Vinceremos Riding Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH-HOPE-LOVE-CHARITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRVIEW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗

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.

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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 Gordon E and May R Cadwgan Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gordon E and May R Cadwgan Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Faith-Hope-Love-Charity Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Gordon E and May R Cadwgan Charitable 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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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