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The Cornwall Foundation M A at a glance

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The Cornwall Foundation M A

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.7MHealth$2.2MReligion$102kRecreation & Sports$60kEnvironment$36kPublic Benefit$35kAnimals$34kArts & Culture$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $769k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$155,000
DELASALLE HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
MPLS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$100,000
WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS$88,500
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$85,000
ALLIANCE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION$80,000
HONOR HEALTH FOUNDATION$60,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$50,000
ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
DRAKE UNIVERSITY$25,000
AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION$25,000
ASCENSION CATHOLIC SCHOOL$25,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$25,000
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $10k → 11%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
MN
IL
IA
IN
PA
CA
AZ
TN
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 32 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
4

Total granted

$5.1M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+15%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $831k · revenue +59%
  • WE
    WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $672k · revenue +32%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $426k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • NO
    NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ACCESS TO HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +15%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CK
    CAMP KOREY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
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
3
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
4
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
7
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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8
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
11
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
12
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Baby Quest Foundation Inc. 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

23 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. 23 of the 42 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DELASALLE HIGH SCHOOL: $600,000 · OtherDELASALLE HIGH SCHOOLMPLS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $525,000 · OtherMPLS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONALLIANCE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION: $320,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATIONEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONABBOT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FUND: $280,000 · OtherABBOT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FUNDASCENSION CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL: $135,000 · Other+16 more: $423,500 · Other+16 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $831,250 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF P…HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $345,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Health+5 more: $102,000 · Health+5 moreWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $671,875 · EducationWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERSUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $426,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOU…DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $60,000 · EducationDucks Unlimited Inc: $31,000 · EnvironmentGULL CHAIN OF LAKES ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · EnvironmentLake Minnetonka Association: $5,000 · EnvironmentCenter of the American Experiment: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP KOREY: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentAIM HIGHER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · ReligionYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,583,500Health$1,328,250Education$1,307,875Environment$44,000Youth Development$40,000Religion$25,000Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$6,000

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 budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $831,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $671,875 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $426,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $345,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $35,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAIM HIGHER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ACCESS TO HEALTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaby Quest Foundation Inc: $23,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAZ Caddie and Leadership Academy Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCaringBridge: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGULL CHAIN OF LAKES ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP KOREY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLake Minnetonka Association: $5,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetREADY SET SMILE PA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Center of the American Experiment ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds AIM HIGHER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ACCESS TO HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Baby Quest Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AZ Caddie and Leadership Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CaringBridge ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds GULL CHAIN OF LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
  • Who funds Lake Minnetonka Association ↗

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 Minneapolis Found…The Richard M Schulze…Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationHardenbergh FoundationMightycause Charitabl…National Philanthropi…The US Charitable Gif…Baird Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Cornwall Foundation M A funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cornwall Foundation M A. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    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 · 0–25%
    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 42 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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