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Cornerstone Foundation

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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
33
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$32,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
15
Total assets, FY2024
$25M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Cornerstone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCrime & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$1.7M15%
FY202333$2.0M18%
FY202233$1.8M27%
FY202132$2.1M22%
FY202032$1.4M34%
FY201925$1.9M32%
FY201821$1.4M71%
FY201715$1.3Mn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$5.6MRecreation & Sports$3.8MEducation$1.3MInternational$838kHuman Services$635kCommunity Improvement$500kHousing & Shelter$177kYouth Development$165kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
WI
MI
NY
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
WV
AZ
TN
NC
SC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Biblical Ministries Worldwide Inc$870,9007n/a
Camp Kanesatake$661,000720%
High Point Baptist Chapel$454,9065n/a
Faith Baptist Bible College$450,00024%
West Side Baptist Church$400,0004n/a
Hope International Ministries Inc$335,00051%
Baptist Mid-Missions$274,1825n/a
Crossway Baptist Church$250,0001n/a
Gospel Mission of South America Inc$235,5003n/a
Building Great Leaders Inc$220,894730%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Cornerstone Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Biblical Ministries Worldwide Inc$870,9007n/a
Camp Kanesatake$661,000720%
High Point Baptist Chapel$454,9065n/a
Faith Baptist Bible College$450,00024%
West Side Baptist Church$400,0004n/a
Hope International Ministries Inc$335,00051%
Baptist Mid-Missions$274,1825n/a
Crossway Baptist Church$250,0001n/a
Gospel Mission of South America Inc$235,5003n/a
Building Great Leaders Inc$220,894730%
Calvary Baptist Church$205,4956n/a
Southland Christian Ministries Inc$150,12577%
58ten Inc$150,000222%
Iowa Regular Baptist Camp Inc$140,0003n/a
Appalachian Bible College Inc$138,97071%
Kingdom Air Corps$125,00017%
Mission for Haiti Inc$120,0002n/a
Churchcare Ministries Incorporated$105,0003n/a
Bay Cities Fellowship Inc$100,0001n/a
Tri-City Baptist Church$100,0001n/a
Wilds Christian Association Inc$100,00011%
Oremundo Inc$88,000225%
A Door of Hope Inc$87,50017%
Auto Racing Outreach Inc$50,5002n/a
American Association of Christian Schools Inc$50,0001n/a
Gospel Grace Church$38,0001n/a
Biblical Education for Latin America Inc$32,0001n/a
Galkin Evangelistic Ministries$25,000110%
Bible Visuals International Inc$13,00013%
Valley Forge Baptist Temple$5,0001n/a
Vision Atlanta Inc$4,50010%

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Cornerstone Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCamp Kanesatake: $661,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetFaith Baptist Bible College: $450,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHope International Ministries Inc: $335,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBuilding Great Leaders Inc: $220,894 over 7y, 30% of budgetSouthland Christian Ministries Inc: $150,125 over 7y, 7.2% of budget58ten Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetAppalachian Bible College Inc: $138,970 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetKingdom Air Corps: $125,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetWilds Christian Association Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOremundo Inc: $88,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetA Door of Hope Inc: $87,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetGalkin Evangelistic Ministries: $25,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetBible Visuals International Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVision Atlanta Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO23.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Seed Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Eden Bridge Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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.

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How do I get to Cornerstone Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cornerstone Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Cornerstone Foundation

How much does Cornerstone Foundation give?
Cornerstone Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,656,455 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Cornerstone Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (41%), Recreation & Sports (28%), Education (10%).
Who are Cornerstone Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Biblical Ministries Worldwide Inc ($871k), Camp Kanesatake ($661k), High Point Baptist Chapel ($455k).
Does Cornerstone Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cornerstone 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 Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Seed Foundation, The Signatry Charitable Trust.
Where is Cornerstone Foundation based?
Cornerstone Foundation is based in PA.

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 75 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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