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Cornell Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$864k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$169k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

International$942kHealth$224kReligion$191kCivil Rights$189kEducation$169kPhilanthropy$124kHuman Services$103kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $573k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$169,400
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$120,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$103,600
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$80,000
IMPACT ISRAEL$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MT VERNON$50,000
AFMDA$41,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$40,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$37,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$25,000
RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$23,250
ISRAEL TENNNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC$17,500
THE SCHNEERSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE$11,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%STAND WITH US UKRAINE: $2k → 6%PLAY FOR PEACE: $5k → 14%MAX CURE FOUNDATION: $4k → 7%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%STAND WITH US UKRAINE: $2k → 6%MAX CURE FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH: $19k → 11%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $4k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%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

IL
NY
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 22 repeat orgs$403k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
21

Total granted

$1.2M
$232k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+3%

Still filing today

86%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $273k · revenue +110%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $189k · revenue +86%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +34%
  • YV
    YAD VASHEM
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
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.

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
6
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
7
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
8
Physicians for Palestine
Health
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Natal Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

48 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. 48 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
27/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $273,180 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $241,400 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISR…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $141,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMIMPACTISRAEL INC: $50,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INCBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $43,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION+4 more: $26,600 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL (FKA FRIENDS OF YEMIN ORDER): $150,000 · OtherIMPACTISRAEL (FKA FRIEN…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MT VERNON: $50,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF …AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FDN: $40,000 · OtherAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATI…YAD VASHEM: $40,000 · OtherYAD VASHEMISRAEL TENNNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · OtherHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $18,500 · Other+25 more: $111,860 · Other+25 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $123,600 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL EN…JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $77,600 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERA…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $42,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH…+3 more: $4,800 · PhilanthropyMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $120,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SL…RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $58,750 · HealthRUTH & NORM…American Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · Health+7 more: $12,500 · Health+7 moreAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $189,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN J…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $99,800 · EducationSYRACUSE …Cornell University: $26,400 · EducationCornell U…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationJOHNS HOP…AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $13,600 · EducationAMERICANS…+3 more: $7,800 · EducationTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
International$775,180Other$427,860Philanthropy$248,000Health$201,250Civil Rights$189,000Education$172,600Public Safety & Disaster$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $273,180 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $241,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $189,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $141,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $123,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $99,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $77,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $58,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $42,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $26,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $18,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $13,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $6,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAWFARE PROJECT INC: $5,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC: $5,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEVEN K AND WINIFRED A GRINSPOON HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PEACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHONESTREPORTINGCOM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Purple Fox Foundation Inc: $3,600 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBOCA RATON POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD OAKS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MIAMI HILLEL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Jane and Alan Cor…Raymond Zimmerman Fam…MORRIS MORGENSTERN FO…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Federation of …National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…
Jewish Communal FundNY20.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Jane and Alan Cornell Family Foundation · Raymond Zimmerman Family Foundation · MORRIS MORGENSTERN FOUNDATION CO Paul Goodnough CPA · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Cornell Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cornell Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cornell Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cornell Family Charitable 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 65 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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