Pennsylvania · Private foundation
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.
- $416k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2025
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 77
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 58 | $406k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 70 | $437k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $429k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $499k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $394k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kieve Wavus Education Inc | $90,530 | 5 | 0% |
| Chester County Hospital Foundation | $86,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art | $73,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Community Volunteers in Medicine | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Montana Land Reliance | $62,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Home | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Zoological Society of Philadelphia | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chester County Food Bank | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends Association for the Care and Pro | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Westtown School | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($539k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima
- How much does First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima give?
- First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima reported 60 grants totaling $416,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 77 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Human Services (11%), Environment (11%).
- Who are First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Kieve Wavus Education Inc ($91k), Chester County Hospital Foundation ($86k), Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ($73k).
- Does First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chester County Community Foundation, Hankin Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima based?
- First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima is based in PA.
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