Maryland · Private foundation
Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc
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.
- $5.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $64M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $5.4M | 96% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $3.4M | 60% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $16k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Earthjustice | $400,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Skytruth | $200,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Grand Canyon Trust Inc | $175,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ceres Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Yellowstone Coalition | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The End Fund Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Green Science Policy Institute | $100,000 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Marisla Foundation · Wallace Genetic Foundation II Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · Patagoniaorg · Wallace Genetic Foundation Inc · Tortuga Charitable Foundation · Park Foundation Inc · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc
- How much does Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc give?
- Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc reported 57 grants totaling $5,423,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (17%), International (2%), Arts & Culture (2%).
- Who are Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: World Central Kitchen Inc ($500k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($500k), Earthjustice ($400k).
- Does Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Marisla Foundation, Wallace Genetic Foundation II Inc, Resources Legacy Fund.
- Where is Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc based?
- Cornell Douglas Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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