North Carolina · 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.
- $412k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Stephen L Cornwell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 20 | $317k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $305k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $285k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $245k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $180k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $160k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roof Above Inc | $208,000 | 5 | 0% |
| North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ | $155,000 | 6 | 4% |
| DreamKey Partners Inc | $140,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center | $138,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Heart Math Tutoring Inc | $135,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Public School Forum of Nc Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Charlotte Family Housing | $46,000 | 2 | 1% |
| North Carolina State University Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rowan Helping Ministries | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| North Carolina Housing Coalition Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($363k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stephen L Cornwell Foundation 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: 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
How this is measured
About Stephen L Cornwell Foundation
- How much does Stephen L Cornwell Foundation give?
- Stephen L Cornwell Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $411,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Stephen L Cornwell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Housing & Shelter (30%), Philanthropy (20%).
- Who are Stephen L Cornwell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Roof Above Inc ($208k), North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ ($155k), DreamKey Partners Inc ($140k).
- Does Stephen L Cornwell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stephen L Cornwell Foundation 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 Stephen L Cornwell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, The Leon Levine Foundation.
- Where is Stephen L Cornwell Foundation based?
- Stephen L Cornwell Foundation is based in NC.
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