Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE CEDAR FOUNDATION
THE CEDAR FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,380 to it, the largest being THE FRANCIS J DIXON FOUNDATION ($1,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $73k
What The Cedar Foundation does
Mission
To provide scholarships and funding for the expansion and operation of innovative education projects which benefit students of the Lebanon School District
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Cedar Foundation of Lebanon School District (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization created in 1994 to provide scholarships and funding for the expansion and operation of innovative education projects which will benefit students of the Lebanon School District, and are complimentary to existing educational opportunities which cannot be funded by other sources. The Organization has established and supports the following main programs: the scholarship program, which provides scholarships to students as provided for by the donor and the educational improvement tax credit program, which provides funding from businesses to provide educational programs approved by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
$75,670 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $75,670.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $155k to $73k (−53%).
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.
99% of THE CEDAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $57.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 THE CEDAR FOUNDATION’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
THE CEDAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
67% of THE CEDAR FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $710 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
THE CEDAR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE CEDAR FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CEDAR FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CEDAR FOUNDATION?
- THE CEDAR FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,380 to it, the largest being THE FRANCIS J DIXON FOUNDATION ($1,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CEDAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $4,380 in grants to THE CEDAR FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CEDAR FOUNDATION?
- THE FRANCIS J DIXON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CEDAR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 4 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