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CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC

CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,832 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($22,900). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$249k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$82k
Net assets
$2.4M
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation Inc does

Mission

Cedar hill cemetery foundation restores and preserves the historic monuments and buildings, cares for the trees and plantings, conserves the natural resources and wildlife, and offers educational tours and events to the general public.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Cedar hill cemetery foundation offered 25 onsite public programs, 9 private tours, 2 off-site lectures, and 1 member event. Total attendance was 1,401. Beach monument: conservator francis miller preserved two of the beach monument's relief sculptures. This included cleaning to remove growth and staining and consolidating the marble to stabilize the sculptures. Smallcorp fabricated three enclosures for the beach monument project in advance of its preservation. The foundation purchased 27 trees which were planted throughout the cemetery

    $164,128 spent$12,762 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $164,128.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($197k) Expenses 100 ($146k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 116 ($228k) Expenses 96 ($141k) Net assets 113 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 96 ($188k) Expenses 101 ($147k) Net assets 110 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 99 ($195k) Expenses 93 ($136k) Net assets 113 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 114 ($224k) Expenses 119 ($173k) Net assets 152 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 141 ($278k) Expenses 115 ($168k) Net assets 128 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 131 ($258k) Expenses 118 ($172k) Net assets 152 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 133 ($262k) Expenses 130 ($189k) Net assets 193 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 126 ($249k) Expenses 142 ($208k) Net assets 223 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (142)Net assets (223)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.7M (+37%).

$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.7M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$2.1M
$2.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

71% of CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
’17
$87k
’18
$41k
’19
$59k
’20
$51k
’21
$110k
’22
$87k
’23
$72k
’24
$41k
’25
4.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Hawthorne Mary Anne

Executive director

Board chair

Macdonnell William

President/board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed232222222325242321
Joined·+0+0+1+1+25+0+0+0
No longer listed·101023112
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $300 → $21k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC.

28%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 55% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 98% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

85% of CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

NY
CT
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 11%Fundraising 10%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

34%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Cedar Hill Cemetery Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC?
CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,832 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($22,900). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $81,832 in grants to CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC?
CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CEDAR HILL CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing