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The White Cedar Fund Formerly Nolen Bradley Family Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $580k
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Inc Cl A.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE KASIISI PROJECT | $220,000 |
| MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GPO CONSERVATION PROGRAM | $60,000 |
| URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC | $50,000 |
| WIKITONGUES INC | $50,000 |
| RISE EDUCATION FUND | $50,000 |
| THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS | $50,000 |
| SAINT ANN'S WAREHOUSE | $26,900 |
| BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE | $25,000 |
| GREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC | $25,000 |
| MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP (DBA DISCALCED INC) | $25,000 |
| ACCELERATE CHANGE | $25,000 |
| FREEDOM COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| ALL AMERICANS VOTE | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The White Cedar Fund Formerly Nolen Bradley Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KPKASIISI PROJECT INC3× · 2021–2024 · $420k · revenue +73% · 35% of their budget
- SAST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $152k · revenue +12%
- GCGREEN CITY FORCE INC2× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- TJTHE JM KAPLAN FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +56%
- SASAINT ANN'S SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $76k · revenue +12%
NEO Philanthropy Incone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
Bric is a leading arts and media institution anchored in downtown brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. 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.
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
65 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. 65 of the 84 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KASIISI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN CITY FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JM KAPLAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Respond Crisis Translation ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom Community Center ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds RISE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERY CAMPUS A REFUGE ↗
- Who funds RED CLOUD RENEWABLE ↗
- Who funds WIKITONGUES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Medical Eye & Dental International Care Org Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds APERTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Advancing Real Change Inc ↗
- Who funds All Americans Vote ↗
- Who funds CORA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds SEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Great Island Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Impactassetsinc · Boston Foundation Inc
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 White Cedar Fund Formerly Nolen Bradley Family Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Emerge Connecticut Inc — 47% of income from government
- Advancing Real Change Inc — 12% of income from government
- Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc — 10% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
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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