· Private foundation
Cornwell-Bireley Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACKSBURG HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| GRAHAM HIGH SCHOOL | $13,100 |
| BLUEFIELD UNION MISSION | $6,500 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $6,250 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| FEEDING SOUTHWEST VA | $1,000 |
| KIDS SOAR | $900 |
| CONSUMER REPORTS | $650 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BUBLUEFIELD UNION MISSION INC6× · 2021–2026 · $36k · revenue +9%
- ASAgnes Scott College5× · 2021–2026 · $18k · revenue +39%
- FRFREEDOM RIDE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF BLUEFIELD VIRGINIAone grant, 2024 · $15k
- SMST MICHAEL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $3k
- UMUNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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.
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Linfield university advances a vision of learning, life, and community that promotes intellectual challenge and creativity, values both theoretical and practical knowledge, engages thoughtful dialogue in a climate of mutual respect and…
Blackburn college links a rigorous and affordable liberal arts education with a unique student-managed work program preparing graduates for careers, communities, and lifelong learning. the blackburn community values critical and…
Shaped by the historic peace church tradition and nourished by a desire for excellence in all phases of its programs, bluffton university seeks to prepare students of all backgrounds for life as well as vocation, for responsible…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
Asbury university equips students, through academic excellence and spiritual vitality, for lifelong learning, leadership, and service to the professions, society, the family and the church, preparing them to engage their cultures and…
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How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BLUEFIELD UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS SOAR ↗
- Who funds BLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cornwell-Bireley Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cornwell-Bireley Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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