How much did CORNET CREEK FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$177kEnvironment$56kRecreation & Sports$51kYouth Development$34kHuman Services$14kArts & Culture$13kScience & Tech$8kCivil Rights$1kFood & Nutrition$515Other$143k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

academicpotentialworthbuildglobalrelationshipslearning

2020

naturalclinical

2021

preserveensure

2022

pancreatic cancerlibrarypromoting awarenessaccesseducationalensure

2023

environmentalclimate

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $15k
$10k–50k3 grants · $65k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL$30,000
ST ANDREWS SCHOOL$25,000
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$10,000
PINHEAD INSTITUTE INC$5,000
TELLURIDE YOUTH LACROSS ASSOCIATION$3,500
TELLURIDE SCIENCE AND INNOVATION$2,000
AH HAA SCHOOL OF ARTS$1,030
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$1,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$1,000
KOTO RADIO TELLURID$273
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE US$250
TELLURIDE LIBRARY$250
NEW JERSEY BOTANICAL GARDEN$100
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS$100
TELLURIDE HISTORICAL MUSEUM$100

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$384k · 22 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$384k

$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+65%

Still filing today

55%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

TM
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
6× · 2019–2024 · $171k · revenue +26%
TF
TELLURIDE FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +8%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +6%

Funded once

AH
AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTSgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +86%
CU
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2019 · $20k
TM
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN FILM LTD
one grant, 2019 · $9k

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

04Your field

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.

Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities

Provide programs and services that connect and strengthen community through the arts.

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Sonoma Mountain Institute

Environment

Santa Monica Mountains Natural History Association

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The Nature Institute

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The Colorado College

To transform our students by providing the finest liberal arts education available, taught through the academically rigorous, immersive, and flexible block plan.

Education

White Mountain Institute

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Colorado Ski Museum Inc

To preserve, educate & encourage public re snowboarding legacy through historical and current artifacts, etc. including legacy of co 10th mtn division as part of wwii and beyond.

Arts & Culture

The Land Institute

Develop a grain agriculture system with the ecological stability of natural systems and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops.

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Southwest Research Institute

Benefiting government, industry & the public through innovative science & technology.

Science & Tech

Western Colorado University

The mission of the foundation is to aid, directly or indirectly, western colorado university in fulfilling its educational purposes

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Telluride Mountain Club

Through education, awareness and collaboration, telluride mountain club advocates for safe, responsible, enjoyable and respectful opportunties for human-powered recreational activities in the telluride region.

Recreation & Sports

Mount Washington Observatory

Scientific research for government, education and industry.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Telluride Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wesleyan University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/21

the rest of the field

11%

3,769/33,396

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.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

19/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$177,301Other$152,096Environment$55,530Recreation & Sports$50,500Youth Development$34,000Human Services$14,256Arts & Culture$13,400

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.

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.

The Thomas Phillips and JaneCO29× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Thomas Phillips and Jane · Telluride Foundation · Just For Kids Foundation Inc · The Dalton Family Foundation · Day Family Foundation · Community Foundation of The · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Thomas H and Donna M Stone Foundation · The Mclaughlin Doty Foundation · Harold Rubenstein Family Charitable · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock · Raynier Institute & 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 organisation CORNET CREEK 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHEEP MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +66% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841294894 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHEEP MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Cornet Creek Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cornet Creek Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CORNET CREEK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cornet Creek Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CORNET CREEK FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Cornet Creek Foundation?

More from the funding graph