· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Commonwealth Cornerstone Group funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Commonwealth Cornerstone Group. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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