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Cornerstone Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF MASS BAY & MERRIMACK | $44,500 |
| FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $15,569 |
| BETHANY HILL PLACE | $15,000 |
| FAMILY HOMELESS SHELTER - FAMILY PROMISE | $15,000 |
| WE ARE BETTER TOGETHER | $14,500 |
| THE SOCIETY OF JESUS OF NEW ENGLAND | $823 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF WORCESTER | $340 |
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 (FY20–23, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $254k · revenue -3%- FMFIRST METHODIST CHURCH7× · 2017–2025 · $74k
SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue -3%
Funded once
THE LENNY ZAKIM FUNDone grant, 2021 · $42k · revenue -64%- CVCAPE VERDEAN WOMEN UNITED INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +91%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
The organization's mission is to empower women and girls and their families, and to eliminate racism. to accomplish these goals, the ywca provides a wide range of services in four areas: adult, youth, health, and residential.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
To strengthen and connect the statewide network of community action agencies and collectively advocate for an end to poverty.
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
Rental assistance received from a government agency under section 8 of the housing assistance payments program. providing technical assistance and training to low-income rural communities and other agencies in order to provide or enhance…
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Boston Connects Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HILL PLACE ↗
- Who funds CAPE VERDEAN WOMEN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape Verdean Women United Inc — 37% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
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.