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The White Cedar Fund Formerly Nolen Bradley Family Fund at a glance

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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.

$835k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$220k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$656kPhilanthropy$585kArts & Culture$523kEnvironment$203kHuman Services$195kCommunity Improvement$188kCivil Rights$133kCrime & Legal$131kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $580k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hathaway Inc Cl A.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ALL AMERICANS VOTE$25,000
GREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC$25,000
FREEDOM COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
ACCELERATE CHANGE$25,000
MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP (DBA DISCALCED INC)$25,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$25,000
THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE$25,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $5k → 20%PROXIMITY2HUMANITY: $5k → 13%BED-STUY CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $5k → 20%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $5k → 20%NEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%NEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%NEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%NEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $100k → 20%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
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of The White Cedar Fund Formerly Nolen Bradley Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The White Cedar Fund Formerly Nolen Bradley Family Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 40 repeat orgs$804k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
30

Total granted

$1.9M
$501k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+1%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • KP
    KASIISI PROJECT INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $420k · revenue +117% · 35% of their budget
  • SA
    ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $152k · revenue +12%
  • GC
    GREEN CITY FORCE INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JM KAPLAN FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +56%
  • SA
    SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $76k · revenue +12%
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · 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
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

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.

Community Improvement
2
The Architectural League of New York

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…

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3
En Garde Arts Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
4
New Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

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…

Recreation & Sports
7
Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc

Bric is a leading arts and media institution anchored in downtown brooklyn whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action.

Arts & Culture
8
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

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,…

Education
9
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

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.

Public Benefit
10
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

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…

Education
11
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
New York City Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 84 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
37/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JM KAPLAN FUND INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE JM KAPLAN FUND INCIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGPO CONSERVATION PROGRAM: $60,000 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $55,000 · OtherMARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP (DBA DISCALCED INC): $50,000 · OtherTHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · OtherHEIGHTS AND HILL COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $40,358 · OtherURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC: $100,000 · OtherURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PRO…Freedom Community Center: $60,000 · OtherEVERY CAMPUS A REFUGE: $50,000 · OtherRED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $50,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc: $50,000 · OtherTHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS: $50,000 · OtherMedical Eye & Dental International Care Org Inc: $40,000 · Other+32 more: $309,800 · Other+32 moreKASIISI PROJECT INC: $420,000 · EducationKASIISI PROJECT INCSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $75,793 · EducationSAINT ANN'S SCHOOLWIKITONGUES INC: $50,000 · EducationWIKITONGUES INCCORA INCORPORATED: $25,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $22,000 · Education+4 more: $32,000 · EducationMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUND…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF …RISE EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · PhilanthropyRISE EDUCATION FUNDBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FO…SEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $151,900 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S WA…THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE FOR…DISCALCED INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureDISCALCED I…APERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureAPERTURE FO…+9 more: $26,500 · Arts & Culture+9 moreGREEN CITY FORCE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesRespond Crisis Translation: $75,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsAll Americans Vote: $25,000 · Civil RightsEMERGE CONNECTICUT INC: $60,000 · Crime & LegalBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $30,000 · Crime & LegalAdvancing Real Change Inc: $25,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,165,158Education$624,793Philanthropy$580,000Arts & Culture$315,900Human Services$190,000Civil Rights$125,000Crime & Legal$116,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKASIISI PROJECT INC: $420,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $151,900 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGREEN CITY FORCE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE JM KAPLAN FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $75,793 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRespond Crisis Translation: $75,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGE CONNECTICUT INC: $60,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFreedom Community Center: $60,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRISE EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEVERY CAMPUS A REFUGE: $50,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetWIKITONGUES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $50,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMedical Eye & Dental International Care Org Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDISCALCED INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBlack Women Build - Baltimore Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAPERTURE FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAdvancing Real Change Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSEACHANGE CAPITAL PARTNERS INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCORA INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAll Americans Vote: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREAD 718 INC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMON JUSTICE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCrew Haven Corporation: $11,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPEEDWELL PROJECTS: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCREATIVE PORTLAND CORPORATION: $6,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPROXIMITY 2 HUMANITY CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAZOM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eagle Academy Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXTLESS LIVE MORE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $4,500 over 3y, 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.

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 Jm Kaplan Fund IncThe Great Island Foun…Brooklyn Community Fo…The Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…The Ford FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…Pinkerton FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundImpactassetsincBoston Foundation Inc
The Jm Kaplan Fund IncNY37.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 White Cedar Fund Formerly Nolen Bradley Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The White Cedar Fund Formerly Nolen Bradley Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 White Cedar Fund Formerly Nolen Bradley Family Fund 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 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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