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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$876k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$48,782
ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL$8,214
PADRES UNIDOS$6,286
NEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER$5,000
JESUITS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PROVINCE$2,500
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
GOUCHER COLLEGE$2,000
GILL ST BERNARDS SCHOOL$1,500
TRUSTEES OF TRINITY COLLEGE$1,000
THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL$1,000
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM$95
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 (FY17–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LATINO HEALTH ACCESS: $5k → 10%SAN CLEMENTE MILITARY FAMILY OUTREACH: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
TX
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.
$498k · 13 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
13

Total granted

$498k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+79%

Still filing today

62%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CV
    CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $43k · revenue +230%
  • TG
    THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +24%
  • NA
    NEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • PH
    PATRICK HENRY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +134%
  • CC
    CROSSROADS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • EC
    EMBRACE CARVER ELEMENTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
2
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
3
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
Pacific Collegiate School

Pacific collegiate school's mission is to provide exemplary, standards based college preparatory and fine arts education for public middle and high school students of santa cruz county and bordering areas.

Education
6
Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science Inc

The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.

Education
7
Pacific Ridge School

In a community that fosters academic excellence, ethical responsibility and global engagement, pacific ridge school prepares students for college and a purposeful life.

Education
8
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
11
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Japanese American National Museum. 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

18 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. 18 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $302,976 · OtherST MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHVERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherVERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOL+14 more: $40,374 · Other+14 moreTHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL: $34,000 · EducationTHE GILL ST BERN…TRINITY COLLEGE: $24,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGEHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $14,000 · EducationHAVERFORD SCHOOLPATRICK HENRY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS: $10,000 · EducationPATRICK HENRY SC…+2 more: $3,000 · EducationCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $42,700 · Community ImprovementNEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER: $30,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,600 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyPADRES UNIDOS: $15,786 · Public BenefitSOLUTIONS FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE: $6,400 · Food & Nutrition
Other$363,350Education$85,000Community Improvement$42,700Recreation & Sports$31,000Philanthropy$30,100Public Benefit$15,786Food & Nutrition$6,400

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

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 budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,600 over 9y, 0.0% 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
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.

  • Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT AQUATIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PADRES UNIDOS ↗
  • Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PATRICK HENRY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE ↗
  • Who funds LATINO HEALTH ACCESS ↗
  • Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds SAN CLEMENTE MILITARY FAMILY OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds STAR ROCK MINISTRIES ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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%
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report 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 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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