Illinois · Private foundation
Cornerstone Family 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.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $498k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Cornerstone Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $24k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $25k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $25k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $24k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $19k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $22k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $20k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $14k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $33,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Outreach Community Ministries | $13,705 | 6 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| O C International Inc | $10,400 | 9 | n/a |
| Zion Evangelical Ministries of Africa | $10,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Evangelical Alliance Mission | $9,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Life Giving Water International Inc | $8,565 | 8 | 1% |
| Willow Creek Community Church Inc | $8,000 | 3 | n/a |
| People's Resource Center | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Youth With a Mission | $6,900 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $33,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Outreach Community Ministries | $13,705 | 6 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| O C International Inc | $10,400 | 9 | n/a |
| Zion Evangelical Ministries of Africa | $10,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Evangelical Alliance Mission | $9,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Life Giving Water International Inc | $8,565 | 8 | 1% |
| Willow Creek Community Church Inc | $8,000 | 3 | n/a |
| People's Resource Center | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Youth With a Mission | $6,900 | 9 | n/a |
| Outreach Community Center Inc | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action | $4,520 | 4 | 0% |
| Commission to Every Nation | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Haiti Scholars Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Maricopa Springs Family Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Breakthrough Inc | $2,100 | 1 | 0% |
| The General Council of the Assemblies of God | $1,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Africa Inland Mission International Incorporated | $1,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Cowboys With a Mission | $1,234 | 2 | 0% |
| Child Evangelism Fellowship of Wisconsin | $1,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Voice of the Martyrs Inc | $900 | 3 | n/a |
| Child Evangelism Fellowship Inc | $900 | 2 | n/a |
| Let Them Live Action Corporation | $600 | 2 | 0% |
| Prison Entrepreneurship Program Inc | $600 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Relief International | $300 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cornerstone Family Foundation 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: Tyndale House Ministries · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Barnabas Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Cornerstone Family Foundation
- How much does Cornerstone Family Foundation give?
- Cornerstone Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $23,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cornerstone Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Civil Rights (21%), International (15%).
- Who are Cornerstone Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alliance Defending Freedom ($33k), Outreach Community Ministries ($14k), Northern Illinois Food Bank ($12k).
- Does Cornerstone Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cornerstone 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 Cornerstone Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tyndale House Ministries, Northern Illinois Food Bank, Barnabas Foundation.
- Where is Cornerstone Family Foundation based?
- Cornerstone Family Foundation is based in IL.
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