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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 FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $335,933, the rows itemized in this filing. The $383,933 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $319k
$12,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REMAKE$39,000
NEST INC$35,000
LYNN UNIVERSITY INC$26,500
EAA FOUNDATION$25,650
SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY$25,000
GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC$25,000
WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL$21,000
CREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL$20,000
FULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING$20,000
THE GIVING BACK FUND INC FBO NEXUS$12,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$10,000
WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC$10,000
XSLAVESORG$10,000
MODEL ALLIANCE$10,000
INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRANSPARENTEM LTD: $25k → 17%REALIZE IMPACT: $10k → 10%TRANSPARENTEM LTD: $25k → 17%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $10k → 21%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $10k → 17%REMAKE: $40k → 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $10k → 17%REMAKE: $39k → 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $10k → 17%REMAKE: $33k → 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $6k → 17%REMAKE: $27k → 10%REMAKE: $25k → 10%REMAKE: $25k → 10%REMAKE: $20k → 10%REMAKE: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 23 repeat orgs$288k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
17

Total granted

$1.8M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+51%

Still filing today

96%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NI
    NEST INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +309%
  • R
    Remake
    8× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +82%
  • CH
    CREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • IS
    INDUSTRIAL SEWING AND INNOVATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +71%
  • EM
    END MODERN SLAVERY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -90%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +50%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

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.

1
Women in Progress Inc

Women in Progress dba Global Mamas works to achieve economic independence of African women and alleviate poverty at a grassroots level by creating jobs and income generation opportunities that generate a sustainable, living wage and at the…

Community Improvement
2
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
3
Shift Project Ltd

At Shift, we have one purpose: to transform how business gets done in order to ensure respect for peoples lives and dignity. We believe that the best way to advance our mission is by working directly with Businesses to help shape their…

International
4
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
5
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
6
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
9
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
10
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
11
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
12
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ileap. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 46 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
34/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEST INC: $294,500 · InternationalNEST INCCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $175,000 · InternationalCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONALINDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $123,400 · InternationalINDEGO AFRICA PROJECTTRANSFAIR USA: $80,000 · InternationalTRANSFAIR USAWOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL: $56,000 · InternationalWOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONALFULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC: $35,000 · International+10 more: $138,500 · International+10 moreSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $147,500 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUC…LYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $109,000 · EducationLYNN UNIVERSITY I…INDUSTRIAL SEWING AND INNOVATION CENTER: $25,000 · EducationINDUSTRIAL SEWING…University of St Thomas: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of St …ILEAP: $13,000 · Education+2 more: $20,625 · Education+2 moreRemake: $223,500 · Human ServicesRemakeTRANSPARENTEM LTD: $50,000 · Human ServicesTRANSPARENTEM LTDWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $35,770 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING MILL…+2 more: $20,000 · Human Services+2 moreTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $74,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING…WOMENS MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE: $65,400 · PhilanthropyWOMENS MIC…CONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCONFLUENCE…One World Childrens Fund: $16,000 · PhilanthropyOne World …CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBEADFORLIFE: $100,000 · OtherBEADFORLIFEXSLAVES ORG: $30,000 · OtherXSLAVES ORGEND MODERN SLAVERY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherEND MODERN SL…EAA FOUNDATION: $25,650 · OtherEAA FOUNDATIO…GUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $25,000 · OtherGUITARS OVER …HUeMAN TV: $24,999 · OtherHUeMAN TVCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 · OtherCENTRAL PARK …MODEL ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · OtherConprmetidosCorp: $52,160 · Community ImprovementMCE SOCIAL CAPITAL: $45,572 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNOMI NETWORK INC: $30,000 · Crime & Legal
International$902,400Education$335,125Human Services$329,270Philanthropy$195,400Other$260,649Community Improvement$107,732Crime & Legal$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEST INC: $294,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetRemake: $223,500 over 8y, 23% of budgetCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $175,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $147,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINDEGO AFRICA PROJECT: $123,400 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $109,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEADFORLIFE: $100,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetTRANSFAIR USA: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $74,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS MICROFINANCE INITIATIVE: $65,400 over 2y, 14% of budgetWOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL: $56,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetConprmetidosCorp: $52,160 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTRANSPARENTEM LTD: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMCE SOCIAL CAPITAL: $45,572 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $35,770 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNOMI NETWORK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEAA FOUNDATION: $25,650 over 1y, 27% of budgetINDUSTRIAL SEWING AND INNOVATION CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEND MODERN SLAVERY INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUeMAN TV: $24,999 over 3y, 50% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmpowerment Works Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASHOKA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetILEAP: $13,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARTINGBLOC NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUgandan Water Project: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMODEL ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetH2O FOR LIFE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

ImpactassetsincHumanity UnitedBoston Foundation IncThe Ford FoundationMarin Community Found…Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Community Foun…Globalgiving Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cordes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cordes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Disability Rights Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Cordes Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cordes 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home