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The John T & Theresa D Cederholm Private Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Environment$203kAnimals$66kArts & Culture$40kEducation$20kInternational$16kHealth$12kSocial Science$9kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
National Park Foundation$1,000
Defenders of Wildlife$1,000
National Wildlife Federation$1,000
Appalachian Trail Conservancy$1,000
Heifer International$600
Population Media Center$500
Amnesty International$500
Doctors Without Borders$500
American Farmland Trust$500
Internation Conservation Corp$500
Greater Yellowston Coalition$500
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 (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 its 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
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
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
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+43%
+58%

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
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

  • 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
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wilderness Society; 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.
04the grantee network

102 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. 102 of the 154 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/102
Grantees still filing
83/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 AllianceWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $7,000 · EnvironmentALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUEENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $6,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPOR…AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $6,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INCBUZZARDS 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…Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation: $2,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $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 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET: $800 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $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 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 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 budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $7,000 over 3y, 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 budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $6,500 over 4y, 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 budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% 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 budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetNegative Population Growth Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST SERVICE EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOwens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation: $2,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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

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 John T & Theresa D Cederholm Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John T & Theresa D Cederholm Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 154 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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