· Private foundation
Stephen L 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS READ CHARLOTTE | $55,000 |
| ROOF ABOVE | $52,000 |
| DREAMKEY PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $39,500 |
| BEST NC | $35,000 |
| PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC | $30,000 |
| CHARLOTTE BILINGUAL PRESCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HEART MATH TUTORING | $25,000 |
| UNC CHARLOTTE FOUNDATION FOR THE UNCC READING CAMP | $22,000 |
| NC HOUSING COALITION | $15,000 |
| CHARLOTTE SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER | $13,000 |
| RUFTY-HOLMES SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| MAIN STREET MARKETPLACE | $5,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- DPDreamKey Partners Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $140k · revenue +7%
- CBCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center6× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +19%
- HMHeart Math Tutoring Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS A WAY HOME - HOUSING ENDOWMENTone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS HOUSING OPPORTUNITY INVESTMENT FUNDone grant, 2020 · $20k
- THTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Operation of a public charter school.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Salisbury Police Foundation. 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 40 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds DreamKey Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds Gaston Skills Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC ↗
- Who funds Livingstone College ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RUFTY-HOLMES SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Bit of Hope Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · Gaston Community Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc
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 Stephen L Cornwell Foundation 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.
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.