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Co Tua John F Cuneo Jr Fnd

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.

$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$3.4MPublic Benefit$1.3MReligion$1.1MCivil Rights$1.1MCrime & Legal$500kHuman Services$470kPhilanthropy$400kSocial Science$400kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.0M
$50,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$126M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC$600,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$450,000
ARNOLD HALL CONFERENCE CENTER$410,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$400,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM INC$350,000
ARTICLE III FOUNDATION$300,000
AMERICA FIRST LEGAL$250,000
YOUNG AMERICANS FOUNDATION (YAF)$250,000
CLAREMONT INSTITUTE$200,000
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE$200,000
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$200,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$200,000
FDN FOR THE DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIESC$175,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$150,000
RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$125,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MADISON MEDIA FUND: $25k → 10%MOMS FOR AMERICA: $5k → 14%FROM THE BARRIO FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%MARYVILLE ACADEMY: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
MS
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 11 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$4.0M
$760k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+19%

Still filing today

91%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationReligionPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $650k · revenue +12%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +18%
  • AF
    America First Legal Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +19%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +63%
  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +21%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
The Institute of World Politics

The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…

International
4
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
5
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
6
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education
7
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
8
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
9
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
10
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
11
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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12
The Rockford Institute

To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy; the most unlike its peers is Madison Media Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
29/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,100,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $700,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $650,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $125,000 · Education+10 more: $490,000 · Education+10 moreCATHOLIC INFORMATION CENTER: $575,000 · OtherCATHOLIC INFORMATION CENTERARNOLD HALL CONFERENCE CENTER: $410,000 · OtherARNOLD HALL CONFERENCE CENTERTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $300,000 · OtherTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY…YOUNG AMERICANS FOUNDATION (YAF): $250,000 · OtherYOUNG AMERICANS FOUNDATION (YAF)CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $275,000 · OtherFoundation for the Defense of Democra…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $250,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA …+21 more: $926,000 · Other+21 moreALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $600,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE D…ARTICLE III FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Civil RightsARTICLE II…+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $300,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL …ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $220,000 · Public BenefitILLINOIS …Center for Renewing America Inc: $100,000 · Public BenefitCenter fo…Leadership Institute: $100,000 · Public BenefitLeadershi…WIREPOINTS CORP: $50,000 · Public BenefitWIREPOINT…+1 more: $10,000 · Public BenefitAmerica First Legal Foundation: $500,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $5,000 · Crime & LegalAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $400,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · ReligionRoseaire Retreat Inc: $50,000 · ReligionIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC: $50,000 · ReligionSHELLBOURNE INC: $50,000 · ReligionSOUTHOLD CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC: $50,000 · ReligionILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE: $40,000 · ReligionIRISH ROVER INCORPORATED: $25,000 · Religion+3 more: $27,500 · Religion
Education$3,315,000Other$3,136,000Civil Rights$905,000Public Benefit$780,000Crime & Legal$505,000Social Science$400,000Religion$392,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $700,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $650,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $600,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerica First Legal Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARTICLE III FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $300,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $275,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $220,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWillows Academy: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCenter for Renewing America Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNorthridge Preparatory School Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLeadership Institute: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Sparhawk Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL INTERCHANGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRoseaire Retreat Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHERLAKE CULTURAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSHELLBOURNE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWIREPOINTS CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSOUTHOLD CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMADISON MEDIA FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetIRISH ROVER INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetMidtown-Metro Achievement Centers: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYoung Catholic Professionals: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAIREST LOVE SHRINE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMaryville Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWitherspoon Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIDWEST THEOLOGICAL FORUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTFORT ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER OF DIVINE GRACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE NATION UNDER GOD: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Bradley Impact Fund I…Woodlawn FoundationDonors Trust IncKnights of Columbus C…Rosemoor Foundation I…Loeb Family Foundatio…The Dunn FoundationThe Leandro P Rizzuto…Helen V Brach Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…
Bradley Impact Fund IncWI21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Woodlawn Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Rosemoor Foundation Inc · Loeb Family Foundation Inc · The Dunn Foundation · The Leandro P Rizzuto Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Co Tua John F Cuneo Jr Fnd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Co Tua John F Cuneo Jr Fnd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Co Tua John F Cuneo Jr Fnd through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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