· Private foundation
Bernard and Judy Cornwell Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| BREWSTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($2.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($336k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $652k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($336k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WCWE CAN CORPORATION7× · 2017–2023 · $397k · revenue +121%
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD2× · 2017–2019 · $200k · revenue +13%- MCMONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC4× · 2019–2023 · $145k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- SHSTAGE HARBOR YACHT CLUB SAILING SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $25k
- ATABF THE SOLDIER'S CHARITYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CDCHARLESTON DEVELOPMENT ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
To improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
To support the establishment, operation and maintenance of a regional communications network to enhance education, research and community development, by utilizing wireless and broadband technologies throughout cape cod, the islands of…
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
Cape cod chamber of commerce advocates on behalf of business to strenghten and promote regional economic vitality while addressing related cultural, environmental & community concerns.
The mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.
To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
The cape cod center for the arts fosters creativity, enriches lives, and nurtures learning by providing exceptional cultural and artistic experiences. with a focus on live theatre, cinematic arts, education, and horticulture, it thrives…
Cape cod healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare services on cape cod, coordinates and delivers the highest quality, accessible health services which enhance the health of all cape cod residents and visitors. the mission of cape cod…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp and the most unlike its peers is Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham. 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 57 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WE CAN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Library Society ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Whole Child International ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT BAY COMMUNITY BOATING INC ↗
- Who funds CALMER CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Fleischmann Foundation · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Weller Family Foundation Inc · Green Family Charitable Foundation · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Watts Family Foundation · Lanbro Foundation
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 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.
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
- Outer Cape Health Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Chatham Historical Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- We Can Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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