· Private foundation
The Floy L and Paul F Cornelsen Charitable 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $392k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| VILLA DUCHESNE AND OAK HILL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| DEPAUW UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $92,000 |
| THE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $185k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS7× · 2017–2023 · $300k · revenue +300%
DePauw University4× · 2022–2025 · $275k · revenue +33%- HSHOME SWEET HOME3× · 2019–2022 · $160k · revenue +395%
Funded once
- MMMINISTRY MENTORS PILOT PROGRAM EXPANSIONone grant, 2018 · $27k
- DBDAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCHone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
- LALOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +78%
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.
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.
To promote positive change for missouri's children and families by supporting the operations of lutheran family and children's services of missouri in the communities they serve.
Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.
Our little haven's primary purpose is to assess, treat and heal the youngest victims of child abuse and neglect and those children suffering from mental health issues. our little haven's treatment provides a community based, early…
Our mission is to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.
Inspired by the jewish tradition to make the world a better place, jfs helps and supports people in need to meet their challenges. through a comprehensive range of services, including a food pantry, older adult services, clinical services,…
Lutheran counseling and family services of wisconsin provides faith-based mental health counseling, family life education and adoption services.
Lutheran child and family services of illinois (agency) is a nonprofit statewide social service agency whose mission is to attract, develop, mobilize, and prvoide resources to improve the well-being of children, individuals, families,…
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.
The agency's overarching philosophy is based in the neurosequential model of therapeutics (nmt), developed by dr. bruce perry. nmt is a trauma-informed, developmentally sensitive approach to understanding the impact of a child's history on…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To ensure that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are provided with the best options and opportunities to live safely, work productively, explore creatively, learn continuously and play pleasurably throughout their…
Engaging and empowering families and community with love, compassion, faith, and support.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
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.
Open a dossier: World Wide Technology Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Pott Foundation · The Neeb Family Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Floy L and Paul F Cornelsen Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Floy L and Paul F Cornelsen Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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