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The Cormura 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.

$78k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$48,782
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$876k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Cormura Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitFood & NutritionHuman ServicesRecreation & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$76k20%
FY202410$69k30%
FY20237$58k29%
FY20228$59k0%
FY202111$64k45%
FY20208$61k38%
FY20196$50k17%
FY20189$53k33%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$303kEducation$133kCommunity Improvement$43kRecreation & Sports$31kPhilanthropy$30kHuman Services$17kFood & Nutrition$6kHealth$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($356k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Cormura Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCharitable Ventures of Orange County: $42,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Gill St Bernard's School: $34,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNewport Aquatic Center: $30,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTrinity College: $24,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPadres Unidos: $15,786 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHaverford School: $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPatrick Henry School of Science and Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSolutions for Urban Agriculture: $6,400 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLatino Health Access: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGoucher College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Puget Sound: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrystal Cove Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Assistance Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJapanese American National Museum: $190 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Cormura Foundation

How much does The Cormura Foundation give?
The Cormura Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $78,377 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Cormura Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (53%), Education (23%), Community Improvement (7%).
Who are The Cormura Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Charitable Ventures of Orange County ($43k), The Gill St Bernard's School ($34k), Newport Aquatic Center ($30k).
Does The Cormura Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Cormura 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 Cormura Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The Cormura Foundation based?
The Cormura Foundation is based in CA.

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 29 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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