How much did BERNARD AND JUDY CORNWELL FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of BERNARD AND JUDY CORNWELL FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

chathamcharleston

2020

theatrecharleston

2021

charleston

2022

chathamfood pantrycharlestonfestival

2023

chathamfestivalcharleston

2024

charleston

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $25k
$10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$50k–250k1 grant · $52k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$290k

Total assets

Largest grants

CHARLESTON TO CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL$51,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATRE$10,000
UNITED WAY OF CAPE COD$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$5,000
BREWSTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE$5,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $652k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.0M · 34 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+39%

Still filing today

44%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentReligionOther

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

WC
We Can
7× · 2017–2023 · $397k · revenue +121%
MC
MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
4× · 2019–2023 · $145k · revenue +72%
CL
Charleston Library Society
2× · 2017–2019 · $70k · revenue +39%

Funded once

SH
STAGE HARBOR YACHT CLUB SAILING SCHOOL
one grant, 2019 · $25k
AT
ABF THE SOLDIER'S CHARITY
one grant, 2022 · $25k
CD
CHARLESTON DEVELOPMENT ACADEMYgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +46%

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.

Community Health Center of Cape Cod

The health center provides comprehensive, high quality, compassionate care to our patients, regardless of the ability to pay.

Health

Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc

Arts & Culture

Cape Cod Center for the Arts Inc

Promote public education.

Arts & Culture

Cape Cod Community Television Corp

Provide community access cablecasting broadcasts

Arts & Culture

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

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Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

To support educational activities

Education

Cape Cod Commercial

To maintain a sustainable, small-boat, local fishing fleet by providing economic support, opportunities to create better public policies, and advocacy to protect and restore the ocean environment and fishing stocks.

Environment

Old Dartmouth Historical Society

The Societys mission is to ignite learning through explorations of art, history, science and culture rooted in the stories of people, the region and an international seaport.

Arts & Culture

The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture

Cohasset Sailing Club Inc

Sailing instructions for members.

Recreation & Sports

Masschusetts Corps of Fire Chaplains

Public Safety & Disaster

Lower Cape Communications Inc

To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outer Cape Health Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moravian University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/27

the rest of the field

13%

7,092/54,036

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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/27

Grantees still filing

20/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,000,000Human Services$652,500Education$227,000Arts & Culture$146,000Crime & Legal$65,000Youth Development$50,000Religion$47,000

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

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.

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.

Cape Cod Five Cents Savings BankMA26.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank · Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Fleischmann Foundation · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Green Family Charitable Foundation · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley · The Watts Family Foundation · Weller Family Foundation Inc · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio

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 organisation BERNARD AND JUDY CORNWELL FOUNDATION INC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CAPE COD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL IN CHATHAM.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 873481565 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CAPE COD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL IN CHATHAM, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 71% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BERNARD AND JUDY CORNWELL FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation Inc?

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BERNARD AND JUDY CORNWELL FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph