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The Strong-Cuevas Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Strong-Cuevas Foundation Inc

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.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.2MHealth$170kAnimals$127kEducation$123kHuman Services$63kFood & Nutrition$53kPhilanthropy$50kInternational$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
PECONIC LAND TRUST INC$5,000
DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE$5,000
CHESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC$5,000
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC$5,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS$5,000
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$5,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$5,000
BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC$5,000
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC$5,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC$5,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC$5,000
BIDEAWEE INC$5,000
CHORAL SOCIETY OF THE HAMPTONS & SOUTH FORK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC$5,000
SPRINGS IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $5k → 8%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%EAST END HOSPICE: $2k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUE OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%HELEN KELLER SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 6%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $8k → 14%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $5k → 7%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 7%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%HELEN KELLER SERVICES: $5k → 20%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 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
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
KS
DC
AL
GA
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 57 repeat orgs$510k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
38

Total granted

$1.5M
$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+10%

Still filing today

81%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    8× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +58%
  • TH
    THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +102%
  • TF
    The Frick Collection
    5× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • RB
    ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -20%
  • TS
    THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue +1%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
10
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
12
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc. 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

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 100 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
50/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN OPERA: $107,500 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERABROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $102,500 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $67,500 · OtherThe Carnegie Hall Society IncThe Frick Collection: $50,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherHECKSHER MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 · OtherCITY HARVEST INC: $47,500 · Other+46 more: $543,000 · Other+46 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $132,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF A…NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR …THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHON…THE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INCCANTATA SINGERS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCANTATA SINGERS INCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPOR…PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF A…GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPT…GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE IN…AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $62,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 · EducationTHE HUNTE…The Pierpont Morgan Library: $47,500 · EducationThe Pierp…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $15,000 · EducationAMERICAN …The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $10,000 · EducationThe New Y…AMAGANSETT FREE LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationAMAGANSET…READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $10,000 · EducationREADING I…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $47,500 · Human ServicesBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHelen Keller Services: $10,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $37,500 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUARY INC: $15,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $12,000 · AnimalsBIDEAWEE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE: $5,000 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $5,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $10,000 · PhilanthropyDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $37,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $12,500 · HealthMacular Degeneration Association: $10,000 · Health
Other$1,003,500Arts & Culture$425,500Education$160,000Human Services$127,000Animals$126,500Philanthropy$60,000Health$60,000

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 budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $132,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $102,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $67,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $50,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $47,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA INC: $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $27,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $26,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCANTATA SINGERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEAST HAMPTON LIBRARY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING ARCHIVES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChoral Society of the Hamptons & South Fork Chamber Orchestra Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMAGANSETT HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetGEORGIA INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHelen Keller Services: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMacular Degeneration Association: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Jewish Communal FundAlfred & Jane Ross Fo…The Maryam and Hervey…Andrew Sabin Family F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Chubb Charitable Foun…The New York Communit…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…
Jewish Communal FundNY16.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation Inc · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Strong-Cuevas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Strong-Cuevas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Cantata Singers Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to The Strong-Cuevas Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Strong-Cuevas Foundation Inc 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 100 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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