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CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC

CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,800 to it, the largest being THE MATEO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$5k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$34k
Net assets
$37k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Cornell Football Association Inc does

Mission

Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. The cornell football association's (cfa) purpose is to support, encourage, and promote the varsity football program at cornell university. Provide the leadership, service, and support necessary to enrich the athletic, intellectual, and social experience of cornell football student-athletes. Continue to develop and reinforce the bonds between the cfa and its alumni and friends. Seize upon every opportunity to elevate and heighten cornell football's image and to instill cornell football pride within the greater university community of students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni, as well as with the local citizens.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

The cornell football association supported, encouraged, and promoted the varsity football program at cornell university. Provided leadership, service, and support necessary to enrich the athletic, intellectual, and social experience of cornell football student-athletes. Continued to develop and reinforce the bonds between the cfa and its alumni and friends. Elevated and heightened cornell football's image and instilled cornell football pride within the greater university community of students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni, as well as with the local citizens.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($195k) Expenses 100 ($255k) Net assets 100 ($191k)2018 Revenue 152 ($297k) Expenses 162 ($412k) Net assets 39 ($75k)2019 Revenue 19 ($37k) Expenses 29 ($73k) Net assets 21 ($40k)2020 Revenue 3 ($6k) Expenses 3 ($8k) Net assets 20 ($37k)2021 Revenue 2 ($5k) Expenses 2 ($6k) Net assets 19 ($37k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (2)Expenses (2)Net assets (19)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $192k to $75k (−61%).

$192k
$75k
$40k
$37k
$37k
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$60k
’17
−$115k
’18
−$36k
’19
−$2k
’20
−$778
’21
2.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20172018
Listed2727
Joined·+5
No longer listed·5
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $10k.

From the IRS filings of CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

59% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC.

59%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 41% · 2019 93% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.

NY
CT
CA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−60% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,080 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2021

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC?
CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,800 to it, the largest being THE MATEO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $33,800 in grants to CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC?
THE MATEO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CORNELL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing