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Commonwealth Cornerstone Group

The organization makes loans to qualified businesses for the development and or rehabilitation of real estate, including mixed use properties whose redevelopment is critical for the revitalization of lower income communities; to finance community facilities that provide services not currently available to residents in those communities;…

$39M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,161,510
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$165M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$38MCommunity Improvement$350kCrime & Legal$150k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project Home Community Development Corporation$5,000,0001n/a
Regent Terrace$4,800,0001n/a
Vernon House$3,500,0001n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh$2,200,00016%
901 Mill Revival$2,148,0001n/a
Mill II$2,000,0001n/a
Cloisters III$1,700,0001n/a
New Freedom$1,575,0001n/a
Homewood$1,500,0001n/a
Dalmatia Elderly$1,350,0001n/a
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All grantees of Commonwealth Cornerstone Group by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project Home Community Development Corporation$5,000,0001n/a
Regent Terrace$4,800,0001n/a
Vernon House$3,500,0001n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh$2,200,00016%
901 Mill Revival$2,148,0001n/a
Mill II$2,000,0001n/a
Cloisters III$1,700,0001n/a
New Freedom$1,575,0001n/a
Homewood$1,500,0001n/a
Dalmatia Elderly$1,350,0001n/a
Landisville I$1,350,0001n/a
City Mission - Living Stones Inc$1,183,200130%
Coraopolis Gardens$1,161,5101n/a
Walnut St Apts$1,080,0001n/a
1850 North Croskey Development Corporation$1,000,0001n/a
Amani Christian Comm Dev Corp$900,0001n/a
Chi-Northside Widows Home Inc$825,0001n/a
Summit House Retirement$798,3271n/a
Caribe Towers Inc$774,9861n/a
Willow Court$701,4201n/a
Old Market Preservation - Ephrata$660,0001n/a
Light of Life Ministries Inc$660,0001n/a
Hazelwood$540,0001n/a
Valley Terrace Townhomes$417,2281n/a
Evangelical Senior Housing$411,975147%
Impact Harrisburg$350,000137%
Regional Housing Legal Services$150,00015%

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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.

Hillman Family FoundationsPA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Commonwealth Cornerstone Group?

Find your warmest path to Commonwealth Cornerstone Group 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.

About Commonwealth Cornerstone Group

How much does Commonwealth Cornerstone Group give?
Commonwealth Cornerstone Group reported 25 grants totaling $38,829,985 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Commonwealth Cornerstone Group fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (99%), Community Improvement (1%), Crime & Legal (0%).
Who are Commonwealth Cornerstone Group's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Project Home Community Development Corporation ($5.0M), Regent Terrace ($4.8M), Vernon House ($3.5M).
Which funders back the same organizations as Commonwealth Cornerstone Group?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Commonwealth Cornerstone Group based?
Commonwealth Cornerstone Group is based in PA.

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 27 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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