· Private foundation
Huffman-Cornwell 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIMOSA CHRISTIAN COUNSELING CENTER | $15,000 |
| HISTORIC BURKE FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| BURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY | $12,400 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC | $10,000 |
| BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| BURKE ARTS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| MEETING PLACE | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| NC SCHOOL FOR DEAF FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| THE AUTISM SOCIETY OF NC | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY KINDNESS INC | $5,000 |
| BURKE COUNTY YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WE | $5,000 |
| THE HOUSE OF REFUGE | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 11 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY5× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +135%
- BABURKE ARTS COUNCIL INC4× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +181%
- THTHE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE CO INC THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE COUNTY2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OFone grant, 2020 · $30k
- EFENHANCEMENT FUND AT GRACE RIDGEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- NNCSSMone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
How this is measured
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 87 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BURKE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MIMOSA CHRISTIAN COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTS PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE CO INC THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF BURKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE MEETING PLACE ONE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BURKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds ASSURE THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHMOUNTAIN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BURKE CHARITABLE PROPERTIES INC ↗
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: Rostan Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Community Foundation of Burke County · Dogwood Health Trust · Morganton Womans Club Foundation Inc · Gateway Wellness Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Emily B Andrews Memorial Foundation · Burke County United Way
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Huffman-Cornwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Huffman-Cornwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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