Texas · Nonprofit
THE CEDARS UNION
THE CEDARS UNION (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,459,588 to it, the largest being The Bowdon Family Foundation ($1,703,598). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CEDARS UNION is better cushioned than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Junior League of Dallas Incshared funderslocal
- Illinois Credit Union Foundationportfolio match
- National Credit Union Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
97% of THE CEDARS UNION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $509k → $248k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CEDARS UNION’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 CEDARS UNION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — broadly stable.
“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
75% of THE CEDARS UNION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
100% of THE CEDARS UNION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 340 organizations that share them.
- Junior League of Dallas Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · funds 49 organizations near you
- Illinois Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Credit Union Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Education Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heartland Credit Union Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No 75portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeastern Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Minnesota Foundation for Excellence in Teaching & Learningportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE CEDARS UNION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CEDARS UNION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CEDARS UNION?
- THE CEDARS UNION (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,459,588 to it, the largest being The Bowdon Family Foundation ($1,703,598). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CEDARS UNION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,459,588 in grants to THE CEDARS UNION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CEDARS UNION?
- The Bowdon Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,703,598 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CEDARS UNION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing