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The Cornerstone Center 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHEATON ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| KIDS ALIVE INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | $17,000 |
| TRINITY HOUSE | $16,000 |
| OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $12,800 |
| EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY | $11,000 |
| CHICAGO WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| REACH BEYOND | $5,000 |
| MISSION EURASIA | $4,000 |
| KIM WICKES MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| LITTLE LAMBS | $3,000 |
| MOODY CHURCH | $3,000 |
| CARING NETWORK | $3,000 |
| AFRICA INLAND MISSION | $2,400 |
| ILLINOIS RIGHT TO LIFE | $2,150 |
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 (FY17–25, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WAWHEATON ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +61%
- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +49%
- ECEVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- LCLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CNCare Netgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +141%
- CHCHRISTIAN HERITAGE ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +53%
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.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
i58 Global is a Christian ministry dedicated to recruiting, sending and organizing relief workers to provide aid and share hope to refugees in various European countries.
To support christian ministries throughout the world
Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
Every generation minstries is an international, interdenominational, christian organization which ministers together with local churches to develop effective ministry to children and families. the organization strives to equip overseas…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caring Network Nfp and the most unlike its peers is World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 60 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 WHEATON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION EURASIA ↗
- Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEDSEND ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CARING NETWORK NFP ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Academy co Richard Van der Molen ↗
- Who funds Casa Viva ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE CENTER ↗
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: Tyndale House Ministries · Barnabas Foundation · Clayton Brown Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · From His Hand Foundation · The Dupage Community Foundation · Seager Family Foundation · The Richard H and Janice R Popp Charitable Found · James E Elliot Charitable Trust · Richard James McCann Foundation · Van Dyke Family Charitable Foundation · Domanada Foundation
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 The Cornerstone Center 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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.