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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alliance Defence Fund | $5,000 |
| OUTREACH COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| Maricopa Springs Family Church | $2,500 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| Haiti Scholars | $1,500 |
| COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION | $1,000 |
| PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSION | $1,000 |
| LIFE GIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION | $1,000 |
| Youth with a Mission | $900 |
| OC INTERNATIONAL | $600 |
| GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD | $600 |
| ZION EVANGELICAL MINISTRIES OF AFRICA | $600 |
| AFRICA INLAND MISSION INTERNATIONAL | $600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM8× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +134%- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES6× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +49%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +23%
- WCWILLOW CREEK CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $2k
- RBRIPON BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Every generation minstries is an international, interdenominational, christian organization which ministers together with local churches to develop effective ministry to children and families. the organization strives to equip overseas…
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
World reach is a global, evangelical missions organization serving fields in east africa, central and south america, europe and the u.s. our purpose is to fulfill the the great commission of jesus christ by reaching the world with the…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission to Every Nation and the most unlike its peers is Life Giving Water International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Zion Evangelical Ministries of Africa ↗
- Who funds LIFE GIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
- Who funds HAITI SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds COWBOYS WITH A MISSION ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds LET THEM LIVE ACTION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RELIEF INTERNATIONAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cornerstone Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.