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CORA Ventures Foundation aka CORA Foundation

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.

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$432kEnvironment$188kEducation$133kInternational$61kHuman Services$49kPhilanthropy$10kAnimals$8kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS$20,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES$14,000
CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS$10,000
TOURISM CARES INC$6,500
TOURISM CARES INC$6,000
TOURISM CARES INC$5,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC$5,500
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC$5,000
CAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA$5,000
NORWALK ART SPACE INC$5,000
PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND$4,000
TOURISM CARES INC$4,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY$3,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF STATENS MUSEUM FOR KUNST LTD$3,000
PEOPLES ACTION FOR CLEAN ENERGY INC$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN WESTPORT: $2k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN WESTPORT: $1k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $250 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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SD
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CA
AZ
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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 13% of CORA Ventures Foundation aka CORA Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

CORA Ventures Foundation aka CORA Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 16% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$751k · 23 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
24

Total granted

$751k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+19%

Still filing today

87%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $108k · revenue +30%
  • FILM INDEPENDENT
    2× · 2021–2022 · $77k · revenue +83%
  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2023 · $77k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2023 · $41k · revenue +19%
  • BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -1%
  • QM
    QUEENS MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +56%

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

04Your field

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.

1
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
The American Federation of Arts Inc

The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…

Arts & Culture
4
The Parrish Art Museum Inc

The museum encourages an appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education, and public programs for diverse audiences.inspired by the natural setting and historical artistic community of long island's east end, the…

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
6
White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

Arts & Culture
7
Fitchburg Art Museum

The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…

Arts & Culture
8
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
9
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Intermuseum Conservation Association

Intermuseum conservation association (ica-art conservation) protects, preserves, and enriches our shared heritage of art and material culture through conservation, preservation, and education.

Arts & Culture
11
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of the Musee Dorsay and the most unlike its peers is National Alliance On Mental Illness. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Public Library OperationsDomestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportYouth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,508

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.

05the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
35/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC — $108,407 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INCFILM INDEPENDENT — $77,140 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $40,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $31,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMSFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $21,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCCultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc — $17,750 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES — $14,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $54,900 · Arts & Culture+14 moreTOURISM CARES INC — $178,399 · EnvironmentTOURISM CARES INCEARTHPLACE INC — $7,000 · Environment+4 more — $3,750 · EnvironmentBARNARD COLLEGE — $77,008 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGETHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF STATENS MUSEUM FOR KUNST LTD — $38,000 · EducationTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS …AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $19,600 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD …MILTON ACADEMY — $16,250 · EducationMILTON ACADEMYBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $13,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRA…+3 more — $3,900 · EducationINTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES — $45,661 · OtherINTEGRATE…NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Leonard N Stern School of Bu — $15,000 · OtherNEW YORK …Peoples Action for Clean Energy Inc — $2,500 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC — $3,000 · Other+9 more — $6,750 · Other+9 moreATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP — $52,500 · InternationalCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $5,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $4,000 · International+3 more — $2,500 · InternationalLEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $6,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $4,019 · PhilanthropySEE TURTLES — $4,500 · AnimalsDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC — $500 · Animals
Arts & Culture$379,697Environment$189,149Education$167,758Other$72,911International$64,000Philanthropy$10,019Animals$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTOURISM CARES INC — $178,399 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC — $108,407 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $77,140 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $77,008 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP — $52,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetINTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES — $45,661 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $40,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF STATENS MUSEUM FOR KUNST LTD — $38,000 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $19,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc — $17,750 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY — $16,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES — $14,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY — $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $10,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHPLACE INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $6,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE IN AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORWALK ART SPACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEE TURTLES — $4,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $4,019 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC — $3,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeoples Action for Clean Energy Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOSSIL RIM WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN ALASKA NATIVE TOURISM ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT VAL-KILL PARTNERSHIP — $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST — $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKENYA WORKS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER ART PROJECTS INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE INTL COUNCIL ON MONUM & SITES — $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Alliance On Mental Illness — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUNDWATERS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL AMERICA INITIATIVES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…The James & Mary Elle…Newman's Own Foundati…Connecticut Humanitie…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Howard & Katherine Ai…Fox Family Charitable…The Lundberg Family F…The Shack Sackler Fou…Elizabeth Raymond Amb…Gs Donor Advised Phil…New Canaan Community …
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation · Fox Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Lundberg Family Foundation · The Shack Sackler Foundation · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc

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 CORA Ventures Foundation aka CORA 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
  • See Turtles — 11% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Art Space Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to CORA Ventures Foundation aka CORA Foundation?

Find your warmest path to CORA Ventures Foundation aka CORA Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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