How much does Cordes Foundation give?

Cordes Foundation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $335,933, out of $383,933 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Cordes Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (45%), Human Services (14%), Education (14%).

Who are Cordes Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nest Inc ($295k), Remake ($224k), Creating Hope International ($175k).

Does Cordes Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cordes Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Humanity United, Boston Foundation Inc.

Where is Cordes Foundation based?

Cordes Foundation is based in MD.

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Maryland · Public charity

Cordes Foundation

The CORDES FOUNDATIONs connects social entrepreneurs with resources they need, convenes events to strengthen the ecosystems of impact investing and social entrepreneurship, and catalyzes 100% of its balance sheet for impact.

$384k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 19
Itemized grants FY2024: 17
Organizations funded FY2023: 18%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $336k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $12,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $39,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 17; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 9
Total assets, FY2024: $10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Cordes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	18	$324k	17%
FY2023	17	$361k	18%
FY2022	7	$123k	43%
FY2021	9	$300k	33%
FY2020	9	$205k	22%
FY2019	14	$231k	29%
FY2018	17	$292k	53%
FY2017	16	$229k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

International$978kHuman Services$309kEducation$300kCommunity Improvement$213kPhilanthropy$169kEmployment$61kCrime & Legal$30kYouth Development$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nest Inc	$294,500	7	2%
Remake	$223,500	8	23%
Creating Hope International	$175,000	7	2%
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc	$147,500	7	0%
Indego Africa Project	$123,400	8	5%
Lynn University Inc	$109,000	4	0%
Beadforlife	$100,000	5	20%
Transfair USA	$80,000	3	0%
Womens Microfinance Initiative	$65,400	2	14%
Women Forward International	$56,000	3	12%

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All grantees of Cordes Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nest Inc	$294,500	7	2%
Remake	$223,500	8	23%
Creating Hope International	$175,000	7	2%
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc	$147,500	7	0%
Indego Africa Project	$123,400	8	5%
Lynn University Inc	$109,000	4	0%
Beadforlife	$100,000	5	20%
Transfair USA	$80,000	3	0%
Womens Microfinance Initiative	$65,400	2	14%
Women Forward International	$56,000	3	12%
ConprmetidosCorp	$52,160	4	1%
Transparentem Ltd	$50,000	2	1%
McE Social Capital	$45,572	4	0%
Women Moving Millions Inc	$35,770	3	0%
Fuller Project for International Reporting Inc	$35,000	2	1%
Nomi Network Inc	$30,000	2	1%
Xslaves Org	$30,000	3	n/a
Eaa Foundation	$25,650	1	27%
Industrial Sewing and Innovation Center	$25,000	1	2%
Nova Ukraine	$25,000	2	0%
Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc	$25,000	1	0%
End Modern Slavery Initiative Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
HUeMAN TV	$24,999	3	50%
University of St Thomas	$20,000	2	0%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Central Park Conservancy Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Empowerment Works Inc	$20,000	1	3%
Confluence Philanthropy Inc	$20,000	2	0%
One World Childrens Fund	$16,000	2	0%
Resonate Workshops	$15,000	1	n/a
Ashoka	$15,000	1	0%
Ileap	$13,000	1	2%
Duke University	$10,625	1	0%
Startingbloc Nfp	$10,000	1	2%
Realize Impact	$10,000	1	n/a
Ugandan Water Project	$10,000	1	1%
Model Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	2%
The Empowerment Plan	$10,000	1	1%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Food Bank for New York City	$10,000	1	0%
Global Fund for Women Inc	$10,000	1	0%
H2o for Life	$7,500	1	1%
Disability Rights Fund Inc	$6,000	1	0%

Cordes Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

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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.

ImpactassetsincMD44.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Humanity United · Boston Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Globalgiving Foundation Inc

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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About Cordes Foundation

How much does Cordes Foundation give?: Cordes Foundation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $335,933, out of $383,933 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Cordes Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (45%), Human Services (14%), Education (14%).
Who are Cordes Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nest Inc ($295k), Remake ($224k), Creating Hope International ($175k).
Does Cordes Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cordes Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, Humanity United, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is Cordes Foundation based?: Cordes Foundation is based in MD.