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Cornelius Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$704k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$160,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 19
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Cornelius Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$704k33%
FY202311$796k18%
FY202216$3.0M31%
FY202119$1.5M63%
FY202011$2.9M27%
FY201917$2.2Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$6.4MPhilanthropy$3.0MInternational$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$155kHealth$101kEducation$67kArts & Culture$42kRecreation & Sports$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
IN
OH
CA
MO
MD
DC
HI
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Central Indiana Inc$3,005,00042%
Word Among US Inc$1,420,00062%
Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land$1,230,000515%
R C Archdiocese of Indianapolis$850,0005n/a
Holy Spirit Catholic Church$550,0002n/a
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$310,00040%
St Alphonsus Liguori Catholic Church$285,0004n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$150,00020%
Saint Meinrad Arch Abbey$55,0003n/a
St Theodore Guerin High School$50,0002n/a
Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Cornelius Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Central Indiana Inc$3,005,00042%
Word Among US Inc$1,420,00062%
Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land$1,230,000515%
R C Archdiocese of Indianapolis$850,0005n/a
Holy Spirit Catholic Church$550,0002n/a
Eternal Word Television Network Inc$310,00040%
St Alphonsus Liguori Catholic Church$285,0004n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$150,00020%
Saint Meinrad Arch Abbey$55,0003n/a
St Theodore Guerin High School$50,0002n/a
St Vincent Hospital Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Cornea Research Foundation of America Inc$27,50041%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$25,00050%
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc$25,00010%
Sisters of St Benedict of Ferdinand Ind Inc$25,0001n/a
Archdiocese of Cincinnati$20,0001n/a
Our Lady of Grace Monastery$11,0002n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$10,00010%
New Alternatives for Children Inc$10,00010%
Marian University$10,00010%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$10,0001n/a
Peer Health Exchange Inc$8,50030%
The Art Students League Of New York Inc$5,00010%
Catholic Relief Services$5,0001n/a
Boys' & Girls' Club of Boone County Inc$5,00010%
Hear Indiana Inc$5,00010%
Christel House International Inc$5,00010%
National Watercolor Society$2,50011%
Summer Stock Stage Inc$2,50010%
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc$1,00010%
Indianapolis Legal Aid Society Inc$1,00010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$1,00010%
Habitat for Humanity of Boone County Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cornelius Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Central Indiana Inc: $3,005,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWord Among US Inc: $1,420,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFranciscan Foundation for the Holy Land: $1,230,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetEternal Word Television Network Inc: $310,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Vincent Hospital Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCornea Research Foundation of America Inc: $27,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Alternatives for Children Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeer Health Exchange Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys' & Girls' Club of Boone County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHear Indiana Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChristel House International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Watercolor Society: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSummer Stock Stage Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndianapolis Legal Aid Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Boone County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 23.

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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.

Lilly Endowment IncIN20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Semler Family Foundation Inc · Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation

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 Cornelius Family Foundation Inc

How much does Cornelius Family Foundation Inc give?
Cornelius Family Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $703,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Cornelius Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (58%), Philanthropy (27%), International (11%).
Who are Cornelius Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: United Way of Central Indiana Inc ($3.0M), Word Among US Inc ($1.4M), Franciscan Foundation for the Holy Land ($1.2M).
Does Cornelius Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cornelius Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cornelius Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lilly Endowment Inc, Lumina Foundation for Education Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Cornelius Family Foundation Inc based?
Cornelius Family Foundation Inc is based in IN.

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 45 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-PF 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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