· Public charity
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;…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT HOME PRES | $5,000,000 |
| REGENT TERRACE | $4,800,000 |
| VERNON HOUSE | $3,500,000 |
| ALLEGHENY YMCA | $2,200,000 |
| 901 MILL REVIVAL | $2,148,000 |
| MILL II | $2,000,000 |
| CLOISTERS III | $1,700,000 |
| NEW FREEDOM | $1,575,000 |
| HOMEWOOD | $1,500,000 |
| LANDISVILLE I | $1,350,000 |
| DALMATIA ELDERLY | $1,350,000 |
| GALLATIN SCHOOL LIVING CENTRE | $1,183,200 |
| CORAOPOLIS GARDENS | $1,161,510 |
| WALNUT ST APTS | $1,080,000 |
| PROJECT HOME ST ELIZABETH | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 35% 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.
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.
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 impact community housing
Operation of low income housing for the elderly and handicapped, regulated and assisted by the department of housing and urban development (hud).
Operation of low income housing for the elderly and handicapped. regulated and assisted by the department of housing and urban development (hud).
Operation of low income housing for the elderly and handicapped. regulated and assisted by the department of housing and urban development (hud).
Provide subsidized housing (65 units) for elderly low-income seniors under section 202 of the national housing act and the u.s. department of housing and urban development.
Development of affordable housing
Operation of low income housing for the elderly and handicapped, regulated and assisted by the department of housing and urban development (hud).
Operation of low income housing for the elderly and handicapped, regulated and assisted by the department of housing and urban development (hud).
Operation of low income housing for the elderly and handicapped, regulated and assisted by the department of housing and urban development (hud).
Operation of low income housing for the elderly and handicapped, regulated and assisted by the department of housing and urban development (hud).
To initiate, plan, finance, develop and manage housing development in the City of Pittsburgh, and upon request, in other municipalities with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on such development in low to moderate income census…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Home Community Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 PROJECT HOME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION - LIVING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds 1850 NORTH CROSKEY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Amani Christian Comm Dev Corp ↗
- Who funds CHI-NORTHSIDE WIDOWS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CARIBE TOWERS INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL SENIOR HOUSING ↗
- Who funds IMPACT HARRISBURG ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES ↗
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.
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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 Commonwealth Cornerstone Group 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.
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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