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The John T & Theresa D Cederholm Private Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2023
46
Grants FY2023
19
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.

Environment$120kAnimals$59kInternational$23kEducation$14kHealth$10kRecreation & Sports$9kSocial Science$9kPhilanthropy$7kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$122k
02FY2023 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k45 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$250
Median grant
19
States reached
$426k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Marion Museum Of Natural History$10,000
Mara Elephant Project$2,000
Cornell University$2,000
Buzzards Bay Coalition$2,000
Defenders of Wildlife$1,000
National Wildlife Federation$1,000
National Park Foundation$1,000
Appalachian Trail Conservancy$1,000
Heifer International$600
Doctors Without Borders$500
Friends of the Earth$500
Internation Conservation Corp$500
American Farmland Trust$500
ASPCA$500
Amnesty International$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Winter Wildlands Alliance: $50 → 8%Home for Little Wanderers: $150 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
NH
ID
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
PA
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
WV
VA
AZ
AR
TN
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$339k · 102 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

102 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2023, 70 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
37

Total granted

$339k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+54%

Still filing today

71%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalEducationHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • AW
    AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $14k · revenue +54%
  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +123%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    4× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Societygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +44%
  • NR
    Natural Resources of Maine
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • BY
    BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +195%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
2
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
3
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
8
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
9
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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10
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society and the most unlike its peers is Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersAffordable Housing Construc…Community FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyEquine Therapy ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%41%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/106
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,459

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.

04the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 154 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/102
Grantees still filing
84/102
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $11,200 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATI…EARTHJUSTICE — $11,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICENatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $10,000 · EnvironmentNatural Resources Council of Maine …THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $8,590 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETYSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $8,500 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness AllianceALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE — $7,000 · EnvironmentALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUEWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $7,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $6,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INCENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPOR…BUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $6,040 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $6,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $4,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $4,100 · Environment+12 more — $18,400 · Environment+12 moreMarion Museum Of Natural History — $28,500 · OtherMarion Museum Of Natural HistoryTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $14,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSociety for the Protection of NH Fo — $7,000 · OtherMarion Natural History Museum — $6,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $5,600 · OtherIndiana University School of Medicine — $5,000 · OtherPOPULATION CONNECTION — $6,500 · OtherMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $7,000 · Other+77 more — $64,210 · Other+77 moreAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE …CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $8,450 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOG…Defenders of Wildlife — $7,000 · AnimalsDefenders of Wild…JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $5,700 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INST…NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $5,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE…Wildlife Conservation Society — $4,355 · AnimalsWildlife Conserva…WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — $3,950 · AnimalsWORLD ANIMAL PROT…THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $3,500 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL…INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $2,000 · AnimalsOwens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation — $2,000 · Animals+5 more — $2,750 · AnimalsRAINFOREST TRUST — $10,100 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,400 · InternationalBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $2,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $1,700 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $1,550 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,190 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $800 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET — $800 · International+7 more — $2,795 · InternationalPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $9,000 · EducationCornell University — $2,000 · EducationIndiana University Foundation — $1,100 · EducationTABOR ACADEMY — $1,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $850 · Education+1 more — $250 · EducationSOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $5,385 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $3,900 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $900 · Health+2 more — $200 · HealthAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $6,250 · Recreation & SportsYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$120,330Other$144,310Animals$58,705International$23,335Education$14,200Health$10,385Recreation & Sports$9,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $11,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $10,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $8,590 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $8,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $6,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $6,040 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $5,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $5,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $5,385 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $4,355 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION — $3,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $3,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEarthworks — $3,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $3,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST — $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST SERVICE EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNegative Population Growth Inc — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC — $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOwens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation — $2,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Loring Wolcott & …Boston Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…The Ludes Family Foun…Fields Pond Foundatio…Davis Conservation Fo…Give Lively Foundatio…The David and Lucile …New Hampshire Charita…Maine Community Found…Eastern Bank Foundati…Marin Community Found…
The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-IMA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ludes Family Foundation · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Marin Community Foundation

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 John T & Theresa D Cederholm Private 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Mattapoisett Land Trust Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Marion Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report 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

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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How do I get to The John T & Theresa D Cederholm Private Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The John T & Theresa D Cederholm Private 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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