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Cortright Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Cortright Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$464k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.5MHealth$84kArts & Culture$73kHousing & Shelter$54kEducation$52kReligion$44kFood & Nutrition$23kEmployment$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $298k
$12,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$273k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAFGIVING360 (SCHWAB) FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATION$111,751
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATION$111,751
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATION$74,501
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDAITON$37,251
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATION$37,251
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATION$37,251
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATION$37,250
Individual grant recipient$12,500
MANNING FAMILY FUND$2,500
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000
MISSISSIPPI CHRISTIAN FAMILY SERVICES$500
Individual grant recipient$400
Individual grant recipient$250
CHAPEL OF THE CROSS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$100
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA: $2k → 13%CASA FOR CHILDREN OF DC: $600 → 14%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $2k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $2k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $1k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $1k → 16%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

VT
ID
MN
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NE
VA
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Cortright Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Cortright Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 58 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
44

Total granted

$1.7M
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+28%

Still filing today

41%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $34k · revenue +25%
  • SC
    SHARKEY-ISSAQUENA COUNTY LIBRARY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +1%
  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH
    5× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -40%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSISSIPPI CAPITAL AREA
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -5%
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
Harpeth Conservancy

To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.

Environment
2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
3
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
4
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
5
Greenways for Nashville Inc

Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.

Recreation & Sports
6
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
7
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
8
Mississippi Food Network Inc

To relieve poverty-related hunger by distributing donated and purchased food and grocery products through a network of member churches and nonprofit organizations; to provide nutrition education to the needy; and to emphasize advocacy and…

Food & Nutrition
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Foundation for Louisiana

Foundation for louisiana is the people's foundation. we expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe,…

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rolling Fork Build Back Better Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 106 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
37/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATION: $993,766 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATIONSCHWAB CHARITABLE FND FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATION: $233,350 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE FND FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATIONDAFGIVING360 (SCHWAB) FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATION: $111,751 · OtherDAFGIVING360 (SCHWAB) FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDATIONFIDELITY CHARITABLE FBO CORTRIGHT FOUNDAITON: $68,039 · Other+76 more: $280,351 · Other+76 moreFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: $33,750 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $28,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $4,200 · PhilanthropyMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH: $20,000 · HealthCARY CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $2,200 · HealthTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $14,500 · Arts & CultureRoots of Music Inc: $10,100 · Arts & CultureATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $1,500 · Arts & CultureSESAME WORKSHOP: $1,100 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $300 · Arts & CultureSHARKEY-ISSAQUENA COUNTY LIBRARY: $22,000 · EducationGreensboro Independent School Corp: $3,970 · EducationSTART THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC: $1,100 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $50 · Community ImprovementFeeding America: $17,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE INC: $950 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $450 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,687,257Philanthropy$70,950Health$37,200Arts & Culture$29,500Education$28,070Community Improvement$25,050Food & Nutrition$20,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: $33,750 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $28,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARKEY-ISSAQUENA COUNTY LIBRARY: $22,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH: $20,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARY CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP: $13,950 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetRoots of Music Inc: $10,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSISSIPPI CAPITAL AREA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHRISTIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGreensboro Independent School Corp: $3,970 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTART THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPETER PATRICK MADIGAN ANTONINI FOUN: $1,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE TETON RIVER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA for Children of the District of Columbia: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCUST VALLEY LIBRARY: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $211 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS RESCUE: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRolling Fork Build Back Better Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENSBORO NC INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds SHARKEY-ISSAQUENA COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds CARY CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Roots of Music Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MISSISSIPPI CAPITAL AREA ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Sharkey Issaquena Medical Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHRISTIAN FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗

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 Griffin EndowmentGriffin Family Founda…Hillsdale FundAmg Charitable Gift F…The Straddlefork Foun…The Allendale FundWell-Spring Retiremen…Hagan Family FundThe Edward M Armfield…Marie G Dennett Found…The Cemala Foundation…Moses H Cone Memorial…
The Griffin EndowmentNC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Griffin Endowment · Griffin Family Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Straddlefork Foundation · The Allendale Fund · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Hagan Family Fund · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report 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.

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 106 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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