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Cunnington Family Foundation at a glance

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Cunnington 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.

$498k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$504kEducation$122kEmployment$45kHuman Services$32kPhilanthropy$30kInternational$26kReligion$22kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEYOND BASICS$100,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$75,000
COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$60,000
WOMEN OF TOMORROW$55,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$50,000
KIRK IN THE HILLS$45,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$25,000
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$21,000
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$20,000
SUITE DREAMS PROJECT$20,000
THE SAM AND NADA SIMON FOUNDATION$15,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS$5,500
TOYS FOR TOTS$3,000
NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY$1,000
OUR LADY OF THE LAKES$1,000
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 (FY22–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $25k → 8%OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $21k → 8%OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $15k → 8%OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $5k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $1k → 8%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $11k → 8%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

IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
TN
NC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$259k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$1.0M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+13%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • ON
    OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $66k · revenue +22%
  • TS
    THE SAM & NADA SIMON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +156%
  • NU
    Northwood University
    3× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +14%
  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +17%
  • SD
    SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +136%
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
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
2
Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital

We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…

Health
3
Oakwood Healthcare Foundation

Provide support to entities that comprise oakwood healthcare, inc.'s healthcare system.

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4
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Corporation

Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…

Health
5
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
6
Oakwood Healthcare Inc

Provide excellence in care, healing and health to the individuals and communities we serve.

Health
7
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
8
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
9
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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10
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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11
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
12
Corewell Health Foundation West Michigan

Improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oakland Family Services; the most unlike its peers is The Sam & Nada Simon Foundation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 35 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $200,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR & SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $72,072 · OtherWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR & SCHOLARSHIP PRO…KIRK IN THE HILLS: $66,000 · OtherKIRK IN THE HILLSWOMEN OF TOMORROW: $55,000 · OtherWOMEN OF TOMORROWThe International Foundation: $40,000 · OtherThe International FoundationSUITE DREAMS PROJECT: $20,000 · Other+11 more: $26,458 · Other+11 moreBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $250,000 · Community ImprovementBoca Raton Regional Ho…BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $187,500 · HealthBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUN…KATALLASSO INC: $40,000 · HealthKATALLASSO INC+2 more: $8,200 · HealthBEYOND BASICS: $100,000 · EducationBEYOND BASICSWestside Christian Academy: $39,276 · EducationWestside Christ…Teach for America Inc: $25,000 · EducationTeach for Ameri…Northwood University: $11,500 · EducationNorthwood Unive…OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $66,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $10,700 · Human ServicesSANCTUM HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $4,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAM & NADA SIMON FOUNDATION: $45,000 · PhilanthropyWOUNDED WARRIORS: $5,500 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$479,530Community Improvement$250,000Health$235,700Education$175,776Human Services$87,700Philanthropy$45,000Public Benefit$5,500Arts & Culture$1,000

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 budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $187,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $66,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetTHE SAM & NADA SIMON FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe International Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKATALLASSO INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWestside Christian Academy: $39,276 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwood University: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $10,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION: $5,700 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS: $5,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSANCTUM HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $4,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ANNES MEAD: $500 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.

Community Foundation …Edward C and Linda Dr…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cunnington Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cunnington Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%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
    2get no government money at all
    4report 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 Cunnington Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cunnington 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 35 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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