Ohio · Private foundation
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.
- $72k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,094
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $779k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% 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; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $72k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $45k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $52k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $62k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $151k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $166k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $204k | 45% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $247k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olivet Nazarene University | $227,706 | 6 | 0% |
| Insured Success Inc | $141,000 | 3 | 86% |
| Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy | $75,500 | 3 | 0% |
| ProKids | $74,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Works | $47,783 | 1 | n/a |
| City Gospel Mission and Affiliates | $25,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Infaith | $24,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Omf International Inc | $20,200 | 8 | n/a |
| Lighthouse Youth Services | $12,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Heart of the Outdoors | $10,100 | 4 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olivet Nazarene University | $227,706 | 6 | 0% |
| Insured Success Inc | $141,000 | 3 | 86% |
| Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy | $75,500 | 3 | 0% |
| ProKids | $74,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cincinnati Works | $47,783 | 1 | n/a |
| City Gospel Mission and Affiliates | $25,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Infaith | $24,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Omf International Inc | $20,200 | 8 | n/a |
| Lighthouse Youth Services | $12,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Heart of the Outdoors | $10,100 | 4 | 1% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Rising Leaders Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Life Furniture Bank | $2,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Wagner College | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| New Life Vineyard Church | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Matthew 25 Ministries Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Safe Pastures | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The a Partners Dba the Antioch Partners | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Olivet Baptist Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aspire of Illinois | $650 | 2 | 0% |
| The Cincinnati Woman's Club | $550 | 3 | 0% |
| Kingdom Prayer Initiatives Inc | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Colombian Christian Mission | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bloc Ministries Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Glendale Youth Sports Inc | $200 | 2 | n/a |
| The Prayer Covenant Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Cise | $200 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($309k), 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 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Cornerstone Foundation
- How much does Cornerstone Foundation give?
- Cornerstone Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $71,794 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cornerstone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Religion (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are Cornerstone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Olivet Nazarene University ($228k), Insured Success Inc ($141k), Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy ($76k).
- Does Cornerstone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% 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 The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, Charles H Dater Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cornerstone Foundation based?
- Cornerstone Foundation is based in OH.
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