How much does The Corwith Fund give?

The Corwith Fund reported 35 grants totaling $163,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Corwith Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (29%), Animals (27%), Health (24%).

Who are The Corwith Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Naples Zoo Inc ($238k), The Conservancy of Southwest Florida ($155k), Advocate Charitable Foundation ($100k).

Does The Corwith Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Corwith Fund 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 Corwith Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yellow-Crowned Foundation, Hamill Family Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.

Where is The Corwith Fund based?

The Corwith Fund is based in IL.

The Corwith Fund

The Corwith Fund at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Corwith Fund

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.

$164k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$35k

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, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$304kAnimals$278kHealth$251kEducation$63kArts & Culture$62kPhilanthropy$44kHuman Services$34kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k32 grants · $79k
$10k–50k3 grants · $85k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$8.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Naples Zoo	$35,000
Citizens for Conservation	$25,000
Advocate Charitable Foundation	$25,000
The HAP Foundation	$7,500
NCH Health Foundation	$7,500
National Park Foundation	$5,000
Barrington Area Conservation Trust	$5,000
Woman's Board of Rush University Medical Center	$5,000
Neighborhood Health Clinic	$5,000
Barrington Youth & Family Services	$5,000
Conservancy of Southwest Florida	$5,000
Barrington Area Community Foundation	$2,500
Naples Historical Society	$2,500
Rush University	$2,500
Yale University	$2,500

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 (FY18–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$998k · 51 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$998k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+7%

Still filing today

67%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CultureOther

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

NZ
NAPLES ZOO INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $238k · revenue +57%
THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
7× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +201%
AC
ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +75%

Funded once

O
OPENLANDS
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +7%
WA
Wayne Area Conservation Foundation
one grant, 2018 · $1k
SG
ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -23%

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.

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development

Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals

Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter

Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment

National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment

Lincoln Park Conservancy

The mission of the lincoln park conservancy is to preserve and enhance the inspiring beauty of chicago's largest and most visited park for current and future generations. we believe that beauty matters. that it has the transformative power…

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation. 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

41 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. 41 of the 60 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)

40/41

Grantees still filing

34/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$432,750Animals$248,500Health$143,500Environment$113,700Human Services$49,000Religion$27,500Community Improvement$25,000

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.

Yellow-Crowned FoundationIL24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Yellow-Crowned Foundation · Hamill Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · S & E Bramsen Foundation · Barrington Area Comm Foundation Inc · The James Huntington Foundation · Stone Barrett Foundation · The Duchossois Family Foundation · Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Corwith Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Corwith Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get 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

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