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Corson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$94k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,700
Organizations funded a year
11 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$908k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Corson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$94k54%
FY202323$202k30%
FY202220$190k20%
FY202123$179k35%
FY202019$175k21%
FY201922$192k64%
FY201813$175k31%
FY201711$108kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$932kHealth$353kHuman Services$8kFood & Nutrition$4kPhilanthropy$2kArts & Culture$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ursinus College$581,16080%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$182,70070%
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network$126,9007n/a
Plymouth Meeting Friends School$54,60070%
Wissahickon Charter School$34,50080%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc$32,00040%
Williams College$31,10080%
Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc$29,32520%
Challenge Program Inc$24,50070%
George School$10,0001n/a
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of Corson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ursinus College$581,16080%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$182,70070%
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network$126,9007n/a
Plymouth Meeting Friends School$54,60070%
Wissahickon Charter School$34,50080%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc$32,00040%
Williams College$31,10080%
Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc$29,32520%
Challenge Program Inc$24,50070%
George School$10,0001n/a
Cabrini Legacy Corporation$5,00010%
Wissahickon Foundation$5,00012%
Philabundance$4,20050%
Indian Mountain School Inc$2,00020%
Morley Foundation$2,00011%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,80040%
Legacy of Hope$1,00010%
Guardian Project Incorporated$1,0001n/a
Preservation Pennsylvania$1,00010%
Conshohocken Art League$8001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$60050%
Upper Merion Police Association$50011%
Brooklyn Boatworks Inc$50010%
Avalon Rescue Squad Inc$30030%
The V Foundation$25010%
Rochester Friendly Home$10010%
National Military Family Association$10010%
Brandywine Valley Spca$10010%
Hht Foundation$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Corson Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUrsinus College: $581,160 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $182,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPlymouth Meeting Friends School: $54,600 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWissahickon Charter School: $34,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Country Day School Inc: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $31,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Atlantic University Inc: $29,325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChallenge Program Inc: $24,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCabrini Legacy Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWissahickon Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPhilabundance: $4,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Mountain School Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMorley Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy of Hope: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPreservation Pennsylvania: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Merion Police Association: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBrooklyn Boatworks Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAvalon Rescue Squad Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe V Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Friendly Home: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Military Family Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrandywine Valley Spca: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHht Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 Philadelphia FoundationPA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

Compare Corson Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Corson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Corson Foundation 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.

About Corson Foundation

How much does Corson Foundation give?
Corson Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $93,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Corson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (71%), Health (27%), Human Services (1%).
Who are Corson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ursinus College ($581k), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ($183k), Albert Einstein Healthcare Network ($127k).
Does Corson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Corson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Corson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Corson Foundation based?
Corson Foundation is based in PA.

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 59 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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