· Private foundation
Co Ta Huffman-Cornwell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Good Samaritan Clinic | $10,000 |
| BURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| ENHANCEMENT FUND AT GRACE RIDGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BURKE ARTS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF | $10,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $7,000 |
| OPEN HEARTS PLACE | $6,000 |
| GLEN ALPINE FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| BURKE COUNTY YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WE | $5,000 |
| CANCER FOR COLLEGE THE CAROLINAS | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF REFUGE MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| CATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- BCBURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +135%
- BABURKE ARTS COUNCIL INC3× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +181%
- THTHE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE CO INC THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE COUNTY2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OFone grant, 2020 · $30k
- NNCSSMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SCSOUTHMOUNTAIN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -14%
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University and the most unlike its peers is Open Hearts Place. 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 51 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 76 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 BURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE CO INC THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTS PLACE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds SOUTHMOUNTAIN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ASSURE THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE CHARITABLE PROPERTIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEETING PLACE ONE INC ↗
- Who funds MIMOSA CHRISTIAN COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Glen Alpine Food Pantry 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.
Open a dossier: Rostan Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Community Foundation of Burke County · Dogwood Health Trust · Morganton Womans Club Foundation Inc · Gateway Wellness Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Emily B Andrews Memorial Foundation · Burke County United Way
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 Co Ta Huffman-Cornwell 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 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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