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Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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97% of Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Rochester Area Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’18
0
’19
0
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$193,400
Largest grant, FY2021
$193,400
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20211$7k100%
FY20201$7k100%
FY20191$8k100%
FY20181$8kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Philanthropy$193kEducation$29k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2021.

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$193,400
Individual grant recipient$6,535

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About Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund

How much does Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund give?
Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund reported 2 grants totaling $199,935 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (87%), Education (13%).
Does Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund based?
Cunningham Educational Memorial Fund is based in IL.

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 5 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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