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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLIVET UNIVERSITY | $20,094 |
| CITY GOSPEL MISSION | $10,000 |
| CHCA | $6,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $6,000 |
| PROKIDS | $5,000 |
| RESTAVEC | $5,000 |
| IN FAITH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| OMF INTERNATIONAL | $2,600 |
| LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES | $2,500 |
| CROSSROADS HEALTH CENTER | $2,500 |
| RISING LEADERS | $2,000 |
| CHILD'S HOPE | $1,000 |
| BACK TO BACK MINISTRIES | $600 |
| DAILY HOPE MINISTRIES | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- CHCincinnati Hills Christian Academy3× · 2017–2019 · $76k · revenue +48%
- PProKids6× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +210%
- CGCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- CWCINCINNATI WORKS - STOCKone grant, 2017 · $51k
- CWCINCINNATI WORKSone grant, 2018 · $48k · revenue +19%
- SNSPRINGSDALE NAZARENE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Teach, coach, and connect marketplace leaders to discover god's calling on their lives and engage in the issues jesus cares above.
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…
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infaith and the most unlike its peers is Insured Success 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 57 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 OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Insured Success Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds INFAITH ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RISING LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds WAGNER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASTURES ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Duke Energy 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 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.
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