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Cornwell Foundation Inc

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.

$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$121kEducation$67kHealth$46kPublic Benefit$30kHousing & Shelter$25kReligion$21kHuman Services$17kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$1,872
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER DOGS$85,000
RISING SUNS PHARMACY$15,000
CITY OF ATHENS$10,960
Individual grant recipient$5,900
SOUTHEAST OHIO INDEPENDENT NEWS$5,000
LIVING WATER WORSHIP CENTER$3,500
Individual grant recipient$2,188
ALEXANDER LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$1,872
SOUTHEAST OHIO HISTORY CENTER$600
ELMO MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT$500
TURN IT GOLD$200
SOUTHERN LOCAL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS$200
OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$150
Individual grant recipient$105
Individual grant recipient$100
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 (FY19–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT: $500 → 12%NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD: $5k → 15%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.
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$248k · 13 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
44

Total granted

$248k
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+37%

Still filing today

46%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHousing & 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER DOGS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +64%
  • JC
    JOHN CLEM RECOVERY HOUSE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
  • GW
    GOOD WORKS INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • PG
    PROJECT GO INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • AS
    ALEXANDER SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Alpha Phi Alpha Foundation of Akron
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2
Freedom Tails Ohio

Animal Rescue

Animals
3
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity Ohio Gamma Chapter

Provide social/academic/education activities and housing/meals for student members of sigma phi epsilon fraternity at ohio state university

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4
The Cincinnati Foundation for the Aged
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5
Ohio Turfgrass Research Trust Inc
Science & Tech
6
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity - Ohio Delta Chapter

College Fraternity

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7
Northern Ohio Golf Charities Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
8
Beta Theta Pi Building Association

Maintains a fraternity house for the beta theta pi fraternity at the ohio state university

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9
Ohio Operation Lifesaver
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10
Helping Ohio Heroes

Providing veteran's children with scholarships.

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11
Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity

Provides educational activities, housing,and food service to members of AlphaGamma Rho fraternity ot The Ohio State University

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12
The Soar Initiative

The SOAR Initiative exists to provide people who use drugs throughout Ohio with free resources, information, and support. We focus on building technology-based solutions to the opiod overdose crisis, particularly for rural areas and those…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Shelter Dogs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Go 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

16 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. 16 of the 66 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF ATHENS: $29,892 · OtherCITY OF ATHENSALEXANDER LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $29,317 · OtherALEXANDER LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTALEXANDER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15,360 · OtherALEXANDER SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherWILDFLOWER LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ATHENS: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,620 · Other+47 more: $85,665 · Other+47 moreFRIENDS OF THE SHELTER DOGS INC: $115,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE SHELTER DOGS INCBella Run Equine: $5,000 · AnimalsJOHN CLEM RECOVERY HOUSE: $20,000 · HealthJOHN CLEM …SOUTHEAST OHIO FREE PHARMACY DBA RISING SUN: $15,000 · HealthSOUTHEAST …RETPOSITIVE INC: $5,000 · HealthRETPOSITIV…+1 more: $400 · HealthPROJECT GO INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGOOD WORKS INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFEDERAL VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementThe Ohio University Foundation: $5,300 · EducationBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION: $3,120 · Education
Other$212,854Animals$120,000Health$40,400Philanthropy$20,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Community Improvement$10,000Education$8,420

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE SHELTER DOGS INC: $115,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetJOHN CLEM RECOVERY HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPROJECT GO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGOOD WORKS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHEAST OHIO FREE PHARMACY DBA RISING SUN: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFEDERAL VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $5,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBella Run Equine: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST OHIO INDEPENDENT NEWS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION: $3,120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDERS FUTURE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSHRINERS INTERNATIONAL: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURN IT GOLD: $400 over 2y, 0.1% 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 FRIENDS OF THE SHELTER DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN CLEM RECOVERY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT GO INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST OHIO FREE PHARMACY DBA RISING SUN ↗
  • Who funds FEDERAL VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RETPOSITIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Bella Run Equine ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST OHIO INDEPENDENT NEWS ↗
  • Who funds THE NELSONVILLE FOOD CUPBOARD INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDERS FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Athens County Foundat…Sisters of St Joseph …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Athens County FoundationOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Athens County Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Cornwell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cornwell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Cornwell Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Cornwell Foundation Inc 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 66 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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