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Cunningham Family Foundation at a glance

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Cunningham Family 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.

$525k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$500kHousing & Shelter$116kHuman Services$115kHealth$65kCivil Rights$65kInternational$55kAnimals$50k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION INC$500,000
THE SAFE ALLIANCE$15,000
TAIL WAGS & BOOK BAGS$10,000
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 (FY19–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 10%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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$416k · 6 repeat orgs$550k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$416k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-1%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • AH
    AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $116k · revenue +255%
  • TS
    THE SAFE ALLIANCE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +54%
  • NC
    NAMI Central Texas
    4× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • HH
    HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -1%
  • TM
    THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • SI
    SARUNI INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -14%
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
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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2
Global Girls Global Women Inc

A 503C3 Organization design to equip suffering girls and women around the world by helping them gain access to quality healthcare, education and economic empowerment initiatives aimed to foster self-este

Recreation & Sports
3
Yours Humanly

Yours Humanly (YH) transforms the lives of children in need around the world by providing access to quality education and equitable resources. Through its two flagship initiatives, Coloring Futures and Bridging Gaps, YH has completed 34…

Education
4
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
5
Helping Hand Home for Children Foundation

To exclusively support helping hand home for children, inc., which exists to help abused and neglected children.

Human Services
6
Texprotects-the Texas Association for the Protection of Children

TexProtects advances public policy and local implementation to strenghten families to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Youth Development
7
Advocates for Children Inc Casa of the Sabine Neches Region

Advocacy for abused children

Civil Rights
8
Thrive Rescue

Providing care to rescue children from sex slavery, and to build a loving home environment for children to recover.

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9
Healing to You

Healing to you provides mobile medical and mental health services to adults and children impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault. our goal is to close the gap in access to healthcare services to promote well being and heal the…

Health
10
Loving Hands Childrens Home

Provide loving home environment, continuity of care, and empowerment of displaced and fragile children.

Housing & Shelter
11
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
12
Habitat for Humanity International Inc

To promote homeownership among dis-advantage families by renovating or building houses for sale to qualified families in the Central Louisiana area.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hand Home for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tail Wags & Book Bags. 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

12 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.

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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc: $500,000 · HealthUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation …+1 more: $10,000 · HealthAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $116,000 · OtherAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $90,000 · OtherTHE SAFE ALLIANCENAMI Central Texas: $65,000 · OtherNAMI Central Texas+1 more: $5,000 · OtherTexas Advocacy Project: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTAIL WAGS & BOOK BAGS: $50,000 · AnimalsHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 · InternationalSARUNI INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · InternationalHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Health$510,000Other$276,000Arts & Culture$55,000Animals$50,000International$50,000Human Services$15,000Civil Rights$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Maryland St Joseph Medical Center Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $116,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $90,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI Central Texas: $65,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTexas Advocacy Project: $55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTAIL WAGS & BOOK BAGS: $50,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSARUNI INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED UKRAINIAN AMERICAN RELIEF COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 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.

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…United Way WorldwideAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Cunningham Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cunningham Family 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.

    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 12 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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