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4 Cornerstones Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$530k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Education$4.1MRecreation & Sports$3.7MHuman Services$881kHealth$877kReligion$873kYouth Development$203kPhilanthropy$56kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION$530,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$500,000
THE AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION$200,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS$160,000
ST RAPHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL$150,500
DRINK AT THE WELL HON'S HONEY$125,000
LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC$115,000
UNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$100,000
MARIST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC SCHOOL$76,000
CAMP ODAYIN$60,000
USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC$50,000
ZIP WITH US$50,000
FIRST TEE SOUTHERN COLORADO$50,000
ACADEMY OF HOLY ANGELS$40,175
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $884k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $1k → 16%LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $265k → 15%LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $115k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $250k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $250k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10.0M · 27 repeat orgs$794k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
17

Total granted

$10.0M
$612k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

37%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +113%
  • SA
    SPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION OF MARYLAND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $750k · revenue +158%
  • UC
    UNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $638k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST PETER - RICHFIELD
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • OF
    Outride fka The Specialized Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
4
Ucare Minnesota

Ucare will improve the health of our members through innovative services and partnerships across communities.

Health
5
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

6
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
7
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

8
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
9
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
11
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unitedhealthcare Children's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Outride fka the Specialized Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports Booster Organi…Pregnancy Support ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Health CentersYmca Community Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%23%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr18%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%14%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr18%50%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,962

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.

04the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SPECIAL OLYMPICS — $2,025,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICSSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC — $500,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INCACADEMY OF THE HOLY ANGELS — $391,175 · OtherACADEMY OF THE HOLY ANGELSST RAPHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $300,650 · OtherST RAPHAEL CATHOLIC SCHOOLMARIST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL EUGENE OREGON — $300,000 · OtherMARIST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL EUGENE OREGONNATIONAL ASSOC OF CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS — $255,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOC OF CATHOLIC CHAPLAINS+28 more — $688,878 · Other+28 moreUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $2,912,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIO…UNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $638,129 · Human ServicesUNITEDHEALTHCARE…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $500,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRIS…LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $380,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE WAY PREGN…+2 more — $3,500 · Human ServicesSPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION OF MARYLAND — $750,000 · Recreation & SportsSPORT AND ENTE…USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA TRACK AND …CAMP ODAYIN — $210,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP ODAYINLIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsLIFE SKILLS FO…AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION — $400,000 · ReligionFREE BIKES 4 KIDZ — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentOutride fka The Specialized Foundation — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPRAIRIECARE FUND — $54,000 · PhilanthropyOLIVIAS LIGHT INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,460,703Education$2,912,000Human Services$1,521,629Recreation & Sports$1,335,000Religion$400,000Youth Development$70,000Philanthropy$59,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $2,912,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION OF MARYLAND — $750,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $638,129 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC — $500,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAIM HIGHER FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetLITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $380,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCAMP ODAYIN — $210,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetLIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS — $150,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetPRAIRIECARE FUND — $54,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetOutride fka The Specialized Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Humanity Alliance — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION OF MARYLAND
  • Who funds UNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH
  • Who funds AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LITTLE WAY PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CAMP ODAYIN
  • Who funds LIFE SKILLS FORE THE YOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS
  • Who funds PRAIRIECARE FUND
  • Who funds ZIP WITH US INC
  • Who funds FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ
  • Who funds Outride fka The Specialized Foundation
  • Who funds The Humanity Alliance
  • Who funds DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OLIVIAS LIGHT INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 4 Cornerstones Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Community Servings Inc12% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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