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Cornell Brewer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $130,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SHORELINE COMMUNITY CHURCH SB | $20,000 |
| WILLOW CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| PHILEMON HOUSE | $15,000 |
| LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| FILO COMMUNITY NFP | $10,000 |
| MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| A ROSIE PLACE FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| SPECTRIOS INSTITUTE FOR LOW VISION AT DEICKE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| NICHOLAS SERGI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RURush University Medical Center6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +30%
- DADAVID AND CLAUDIA JACKSON FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +303% · 100% of their budget
- PHPHILEMON HOUSE5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- OHONE HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $100k
- HIHELPHOPELIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +41%
- IFILLINOIS FOUNDATION FOR NEW BEGINNINGSone grant, 2020 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Gull lake ministries provides bible based, christian retreats year-round for families, churches and organizations where we exalt jesus and share his truth.
To broadcast the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the available means including television, radio, internet, recorded, and written formats.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Impacting people for Christ worldwide through media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Church. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
44 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. 44 of the 70 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds DAVID AND CLAUDIA JACKSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILEMON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
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- Who funds NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SPECTRIOS INSTITUTE FOR LOW VISION ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FILO COMMUNITY NFP ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS FOUNDATION FOR NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds TLC CENTERS FOR THERAPY ↗
- Who funds Imaging the World Corp ↗
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- Who funds Nicholas D Sergi Foundation ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Barnabas Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 Cornell Brewer 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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