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Cornuelle Family 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.

$156k
Granted FY2023
22
Grants FY2023
13
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Animals$203kEducation$200kInternational$195kEnvironment$156kHuman Services$65kArts & Culture$40kFood & Nutrition$29kPublic Benefit$26kOther$0
02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k17 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $58k
$6,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$18,000
SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC$10,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
HORSES OF TIR NA NOG$10,000
MAUI UNITED WAY INC LAHAINA FIRE RELIEF FUND$10,000
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$9,000
LILJESTRAND FOUNDATION$7,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$6,500
ALIGHT$6,500
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA$6,500
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE (CARE)$6,500
HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT$6,500
MERCY CORPS$6,500
POMONA COLLEGE$6,000
CHEWONKI FOUNDATION INC$6,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $11k → 10%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $7k → 8%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $6k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $7k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT INC: $7k → 8%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $10k → 10%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $7k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $7k → 10%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT INC: $6k → 8%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO: $2k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $6k → 10%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT INC: $5k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $5k → 10%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

ME
WA
MN
MI
NY
OR
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
HI
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$861k · 32 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
8

Total granted

$861k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+29%

Still filing today

88%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $78k · revenue +34%
  • SG
    Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $58k · revenue +146%
  • CL
    Conservation Lands Foundation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $58k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • FS
    FEEDING SAN DIEGOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +29%
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY ERL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • OF
    OXFORD FOR THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
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
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
11
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
12
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego; the most unlike its peers is The Liljestrand Foundation. 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

34 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. 34 of the 44 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)
33/34
Grantees still filing
30/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $77,800 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $37,300 · EducationUniversity of Notre Da…POMONA COLLEGE: $30,300 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGEVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $14,500 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD I…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $14,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERS…Mercy Corps: $44,292 · InternationalMercy CorpsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $36,792 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIE…ALIGHT: $36,792 · InternationalALIGHTSave The Children Federation Inc: $33,666 · InternationalSave The Children Fed…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $32,792 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSIS…Conservation Lands Foundation: $57,700 · EnvironmentConservation Lands …Deschutes Land Trust: $37,500 · EnvironmentDeschutes Land Trus…Chewonki Foundation Inc: $37,300 · EnvironmentChewonki Foundation…COLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $10,000 · EnvironmentCOLUMBIA LAND TRUSTGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $9,000 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NATIONA…Big Sur Land Trust: $9,000 · EnvironmentBig Sur Land Trust+1 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentHORSES OF TIR NA NOG: $53,200 · AnimalsHORSES OF TIR N…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $36,800 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCI…OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $32,750 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE S…THE HUMANE LEAGUE: $6,500 · AnimalsSOUND EQUINE OPTIONS: $5,000 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $27,300 · OtherSAN DIEGO STATE UN…CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $13,500 · OtherCIRCLE OF FRIENDSCHARITY GLOBAL INC CHARITY WATER: $10,625 · OtherCHARITY GLOBAL INC…MAUI UNITED WAY INC LAHAINA FIRE RELIEF FUND: $10,000 · OtherMAUI UNITED WAY IN…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNI…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY ERL: $10,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNI…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…YMCA OF LA JOLLA: $9,300 · OtherYMCA OF LA JOLLAOXFORD FOR THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY INSTITUTE: $9,000 · OtherOXFORD FOR THE FUT…CATO INSTITUTE: $26,000 · OtherCATO INSTITUTETHE LILJESTRAND FOUNDATION: $13,000 · OtherTHE LILJESTRAND FO…+4 more: $13,500 · Other+4 moreSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $58,450 · Human ServicesSoutheastern…HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $36,791 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND…YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10,500 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN …SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $12,500 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSEED TO TABLE OREGON: $6,500 · Food & Nutrition
Education$189,900International$184,334Environment$164,500Animals$134,250Other$162,225Human Services$105,741Food & Nutrition$29,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $77,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $58,450 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation: $57,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHORSES OF TIR NA NOG: $53,200 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetMercy Corps: $44,292 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDeschutes Land Trust: $37,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $37,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc: $37,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $36,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $36,792 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $36,792 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $36,791 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $33,666 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $32,792 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $32,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $30,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $13,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE LILJESTRAND FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEED TO TABLE OREGON: $6,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUND EQUINE OPTIONS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWALLOWA LAND TRUST: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWARFIGHTER OUTFITTERS: $3,500 over 1y, 1.6% 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 PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
  • Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HORSES OF TIR NA NOG ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
  • Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds THE LILJESTRAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Big Sur Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds SEED TO TABLE OREGON ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds SOUND EQUINE OPTIONS ↗

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 Oregon Community FoundationOR16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Douglas and Gloria Rumberger Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · Ibm International Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Cornuelle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cornuelle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Deschutes Land Trust: 46% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Wallowa Land Trust: 3% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–75%
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.

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 44 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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