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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.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$333kReligion$165kHealth$152kEmployment$102kCrime & Legal$74kHuman Services$72kInternational$20kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$779k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ASPIRE: $500 → 14%ASPIRE: $150 → 14%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $3k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $3k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $3k → 16%RISING LEADERS: $3k → 16%RISING LEADERS: $2k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $1k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $1k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $800 → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $48k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$834k · 25 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
30

Total granted

$834k
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+3%

Still filing today

48%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CH
    Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy
    3× · 2017–2019 · $76k · revenue +48%
  • P
    ProKids
    6× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +210%
  • CG
    CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CW
    CINCINNATI WORKS - STOCK
    one grant, 2017 · $51k
  • CW
    CINCINNATI WORKS
    one grant, 2018 · $48k · revenue +19%
  • SN
    SPRINGSDALE NAZARENE CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
2
International Leadership Institute

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…

Religion
3
L I F E Ministries Inc Community Pregnancy Center

Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.

Health
4
Halftime Institute

Teach, coach, and connect marketplace leaders to discover god's calling on their lives and engage in the issues jesus cares above.

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5
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

—
6
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
7
Cincinnati Union Bethel

Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.

Human Services
8
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

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…

Religion
9
Next Worldwide Inc

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.

—
10
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
11
Churches in Missions Inc

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...

Human Services
12
Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Infaith; 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.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Insured Success Inc: $141,000 · OtherInsured Success IncCROSSROADS CHURCH: $79,905 · OtherCROSSROADS CHURCHCINCINNATI WORKS - STOCK: $51,096 · OtherCINCINNATI WORKS - STOCKCHCA: $46,933 · OtherCHCACITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $25,100 · OtherOMF INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,200 · OtherOLIVET UNIVERSITY: $20,094 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · Other+29 more: $97,700 · Other+29 moreOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $227,706 · EducationOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITYCincinnati Hills Christian Academy: $75,500 · EducationCincinnati Hills Christian Academy+2 more: $9,000 · EducationProKids: $74,000 · Civil RightsCINCINNATI WORKS: $47,783 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $12,750 · Human ServicesRISING LEADERS INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $2,800 · Human Services+1 more: $650 · Human ServicesINFAITH: $24,600 · ReligionHEART OF THE OUTDOORS: $10,100 · Religion+5 more: $2,400 · ReligionEmergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $1,000 · InternationalTHE CINCINNATI WOMAN'S CLUB: $550 · Community Improvement
Other$500,028Education$312,206Civil Rights$74,000Human Services$68,483Religion$37,100Housing & Shelter$4,000International$1,000Community Improvement$550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $227,706 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInsured Success Inc: $141,000 over 3y, 86% of budgetCincinnati Hills Christian Academy: $75,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetProKids: $74,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $25,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINFAITH: $24,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $12,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF THE OUTDOORS: $10,100 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRISING LEADERS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEmergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $2,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWAGNER COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PASTURES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CINCINNATI WOMAN'S CLUB: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKINGDOM PRAYER INITIATIVES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLOC MINISTRIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Prayer Covenant Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PASTURES ↗
  • Who funds THE A PARTNERS DBA THE ANTIOCH PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds ASPIRE OF ILLINOIS ↗

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Johnson Charitable Gi…Charles H Dater Found…Ge Aerospace Foundati…L & L Nippert Charita…Pfau Charitable Found…Farmer Family Foundat…Carol Ann and Ralph V…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Duke Energy Foundation
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH25.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cornerstone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cornerstone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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 57 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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