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Robert and Virginia Cornog Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Robert and Virginia Cornog 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$46kEducation$45kEnvironment$27kArts & Culture$11kRecreation & Sports$7kHuman Services$2kHealth$500
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$436k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARTHAGE COLLEGE$15,000
NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$5,000
NAPLES YACHT CLUB$1,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$500
GUADALUPE CENTER$500
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%GUADALUPE CENTER: $1k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER: $500 → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER: $500 → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$124k · 8 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$124k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+23%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +167%
  • CARTHAGE COLLEGE
    3× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +7%
  • University of Chicago
    5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • BM
    Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -67%
  • WB
    WHITEFISH BAY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
7
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
10
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
11
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association. 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. 12 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
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

NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY: $45,000 · OtherNCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPYTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $27,000 · OtherTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDANAPLES YACHT CLUB INC: $6,000 · OtherNAPLES YACHT CLUB INCNAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,500 · OtherNAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC+2 more: $1,500 · OtherCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $20,500 · EducationCARTHAGE COLLEGEUniversity of Chicago: $14,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoIllinois Institute of Technology: $10,000 · EducationIllinois Institute of Technology+1 more: $500 · EducationColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $4,250 · Arts & CultureGuadalupe Center Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesBella Mente Quantum Racing Association: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · Health
Other$85,000Education$45,000Arts & Culture$4,250Human Services$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,000Health$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES YACHT CLUB INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBella Mente Quantum Racing Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–15%
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.

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 14 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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