How much does Cornell Family Foundation give?

Cornell Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $194,111 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Cornell Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Education (17%), Health (17%).

Who are Cornell Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Waterorg ($59k), Mercy Ships International ($54k), Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc ($50k).

Does Cornell Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Cornell Family Foundation 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 Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.

Where is Cornell Family Foundation based?

Cornell Family Foundation is based in NY.

Cornell Family Foundation

Cornell Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Cornell Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$194k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$189kEducation$162kHealth$160kInternational$121kHousing & Shelter$80kReligion$42kEnvironment$41kRecreation & Sports$41kOther$0

02FY2023 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k15 grants · $60k
$10k–50k10 grants · $134k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DIGDEEP NAVAJO WATER PROJECT	$20,000
FORT TRYON PARK TRUST	$15,000
DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION	$12,854
WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA	$12,854
Room to Read	$12,853
WATERORG	$12,853
MERCY SHIPS	$12,853
FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES	$12,500
DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM	$12,500
THE SMITH FUND	$10,000
MERCY COLLEGE	$8,267
ACLU FOUNDATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE	$5,000
ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE	$5,000
RIVENDELL ACADEMY	$5,000
HOLY TRINITY INWOOD CHURCH	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY21–23, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Cornell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Cornell Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 5.1% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$786k · 22 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$786k

$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%

+49%

Still filing today

73%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCrime & 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

W
WATERORG
7× · 2017–2023 · $59k · revenue +8%
Mercy Ships International
6× · 2018–2023 · $54k · revenue +114%
BC
BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +66%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $10k
ET
EDUCATIONAL THEATER COLLABORATIVE
one grant, 2022 · $10k
WW
WARREN WENTWORTH AMBULANCE SERVICEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +54%

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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United Nations International School

Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…

Education

Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Ps-Is 187. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 47 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

18/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$482,664Arts & Culture$127,500International$117,706Education$96,387Human Services$65,354Health$31,600Recreation & Sports$28,000

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

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get 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

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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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