Virginia · Private foundation
The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial 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.
- $5.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 61
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $66M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 58 | $5.6M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $4.6M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $4.8M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $5.2M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $4.3M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $4.2M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $4.1M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $3.8M | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wnet | $4,725,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Opera Association Inc | $3,900,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Charlottesville Opera | $2,050,000 | 9 | 43% |
| Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc | $2,025,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Miller Center Foundation | $1,500,000 | 6 | 18% |
| Montpelier Foundation | $1,425,000 | 7 | 6% |
| University of Virginia Foundation | $1,130,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $1,065,000 | 9 | 1% |
| St Bartholomew's Conservancy Inc | $950,000 | 9 | 26% |
| Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy | $835,000 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation Inc · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · The Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairman · The Rimora Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation with peer funders
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About The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation
- How much does The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation give?
- The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $5,629,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (74%), Education (9%), Health (6%).
- Who are The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wnet ($4.7M), Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ($3.9M), Charlottesville Opera ($2.0M).
- Does The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation 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 Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Caplin Foundation, Manning Family Foundation.
- Where is The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation based?
- The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation is based in VA.
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