How much does The Cordell Family Foundation give?

The Cordell Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $40,449 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Cordell Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (80%), Health (7%), International (6%).

Who are The Cordell Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Faith Alive USA Inc ($10k), Lankenau Medical Center Foundation ($5k), Catholic Charities Appeal of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia ($4k).

Does The Cordell Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Cordell Family 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 The Cordell Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The US Charitable Gift Trust, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.

Where is The Cordell Family Foundation based?

The Cordell Family Foundation is based in PA.

The Cordell Family Foundation

The Cordell Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Cordell Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$36k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$185kHealth$15kInternational$14kHuman Services$7kEducation$4kYouth Development$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$700Arts & Culture$640Other$0

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $5k
$10k–50k1 grant · $36k

$234

Median grant

States reached

$833k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST DENIS CATHOLIC CHURCH	$35,700
BUCKS COUNTY CHILDREN & YOUTH SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY	$500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES APPEAL	$500
COME AND SEE FOUNDATION	$500
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA	$315
ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL SCHOOL	$311
VFW	$300
THE FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION	$300
GMF SCHOOL FUNDRAISER	$300
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT	$275
ST CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY	$250
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$234
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION	$200
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$127
Individual grant recipient	$105

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$218k · 34 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$218k

$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+11%

Still filing today

56%

20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

FA
FAITH ALIVE USA INC
3× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +227%
Compassion International Incorporated
4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +16%
TC
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
6× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +88%

Funded once

LM
LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +56%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $2k
SE
ST ELIZABETH CATHOLIC CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $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.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health

Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health

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

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health

Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

28 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. 28 of the 67 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/28

Grantees still filing

22/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$199,951International$13,269Health$11,720Human Services$3,171Education$3,134Religion$700Youth Development$500

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.

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.

The US Charitable Gift TrustMA11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home