Colorado · Private foundation
Cornerstone Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $703k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Cornerstone Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $118k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $77k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $75k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $75k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $75k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $70k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Christian School Foundation Short Tax Year Ended 5/31/2025 | $265,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Berean Fundamental Church of Lincoln Nebraska | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $24,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pearl Church | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pregnancy Center Inc | $7,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Crossroads Ministry of Estes Park | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gideons International | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| People's City Mission | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($336k), not named here.
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Cornerstone Foundation Inc
- How much does Cornerstone Foundation Inc give?
- Cornerstone Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cornerstone Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (53%), Education (38%), International (3%).
- Who are Cornerstone Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lincoln Christian School Foundation Short Tax Year Ended 5/31/2025 ($265k), Berean Fundamental Church of Lincoln Nebraska ($30k), Samaritan's Purse ($25k).
- Does Cornerstone Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cornerstone Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, The Signatry Charitable Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Cornerstone Foundation Inc based?
- Cornerstone Foundation Inc is based in CO.
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