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First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $228k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTANA LAND RELIANCE | $18,000 |
| KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION INC | $15,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $15,000 |
| PETERS PLACE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ZOO | $10,000 |
| BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| BEARTOOTH HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BRIDGE OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| WESTTOWN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $346k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
82 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CCCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +2%
- BCBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art5× · 2021–2025 · $73k · revenue +95%
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2021 · $5k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NNNAMI Nationalgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +54%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Children's services
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aspen-Abuse Support & Prevention Education Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 111 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Kieve Wavus Education Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PETER'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds Church Farm School ↗
- Who funds THE STATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds THE BARN AT SPRING BROOK FARM INC ↗
- Who funds COATESVILLE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds HANDI-CRAFTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RED LODGE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR ↗
- Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL SOLTANE ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · Hankin Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · Claneil Foundation Inc · The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation Inc · The Fund for Women and Girls · The Dansko Foundation Inc · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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