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Corner Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.0MEducation$805kCivil Rights$645kFood & Nutrition$640kArts & Culture$623kReligion$594kHuman Services$511kHousing & Shelter$230kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $401k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOLS$500,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING$100,000
BLAIR ACADEMY$100,000
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$75,000
CITY HARVEST INC$40,000
KASEY'S KEY$35,000
IRC - INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$25,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$25,000
UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY$23,000
CENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK$20,000
NYU MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION$20,000
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH$17,500
SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME$15,000
UJA FEDERATION$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $596k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RETREAT INC: $5k → 7%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $5k → 6%NEW YORK IRISH CENTER: $2k → 13%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNATION: $5k → 13%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $5k → 6%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $25k → 9%EMS FDNY HELP FUND: $5k → 13%THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $25k → 9%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILDCARE & REC: $3k → 7%ISLAND HARVEST: $3k → 7%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $10k → 7%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%PROJECTS WITH CARE: $5k → 17%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES: $3k → 20%THE RETREAT: $5k → 7%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICE: $13k → 17%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION: $3k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $50k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $35k → 17%CONVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%BIRCH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $5k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $5k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $5k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $10k → 17%BROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES: $5k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%DOROT INC: $2k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $25k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $25k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $25k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $25k → 17%NY WOMENS FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NY WOMENS FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%BOTOMLESS CLOSET: $2k → 17%NY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $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

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
NM
SC
DC
LA
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 95 repeat orgs$903k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

95 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
120

Total granted

$8.1M
$835k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+24%

Still filing today

69%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • CC
    CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $640k · revenue +50%
  • CITY HARVEST INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $612k · revenue +58%
  • BA
    BLAIR ACADEMY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $515k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $105k
  • PUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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6
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
7
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
8
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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9
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henry Street Settlement; the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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

132 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. 132 of the 223 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
130/132
Grantees still filing
99/132
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NOLS: $1,530,000 · OtherNOLSCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $640,000 · OtherCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INCCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $426,000 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUEMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING: $400,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERINGIndividual grant recipient: $375,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $300,000 · Other+112 more: $2,101,203 · Other+112 moreBLAIR ACADEMY: $515,300 · EducationBLAIR ACAD…SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $90,000 · EducationSUCCESS AC…Cornell University: $75,000 · EducationCornell Un…+13 more: $115,815 · Education+13 moreCITY HARVEST INC: $611,500 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $21,000 · Food & NutritionCOVENANT HOUSE: $155,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGRAHAM WINDHAM: $50,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesBIRCH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human Services+18 more: $141,070 · Human ServicesWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $125,001 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $112,300 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $58,200 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURE FOR ONE: $34,000 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $22,500 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $109,227 · Arts & CultureKasey's Key Inc: $147,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $105,000 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 · HealthPUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS: $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $40,000 · Health+8 more: $60,500 · HealthUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $132,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$5,772,203Education$796,115Food & Nutrition$632,500Human Services$616,070Arts & Culture$526,228Health$473,000Recreation & Sports$202,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $640,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $611,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $515,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKasey's Key Inc: $147,500 over 8y, 95% of budgetUNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC: $132,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $125,001 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $124,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $112,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $58,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $53,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGRAHAM WINDHAM: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHousing Plus Solutions Inc: $47,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURE FOR ONE: $34,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIRCH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $22,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEHIND THE BOOK INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe MISS Foundation Mothers in Sympathy & Support: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $18,070 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC: $17,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE REALTY FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC: $15,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMADOO CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBROADWAY HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCORNELL HILLEL: $12,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $11,815 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds Kasey's Key Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAHAM WINDHAM ↗
  • Who funds Housing Plus Solutions Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

K T Elghanayan FundJewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Robin Hood FoundationThe Reba Judith Sandl…May and Samuel Rudin …Brooklyn Community Fo…Mother Cabrini Health…Daniels Family Founda…The Rosenthal Fund
K T Elghanayan FundNY34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: K T Elghanayan Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · The Reba Judith Sandler Foundation Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Daniels Family Foundation Inc · The Rosenthal Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 223 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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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