California · Nonprofit
CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,004,608 to it, the largest being Family Violence Law Center ($698,577). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Cornerstone Community Development Corporation does
Mission
Ending homelessness and domestic violence of women and children
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing programs - building futures' housing services include bessie coleman court, a 52-unit permanent supportive housing community for formally chronically homeless survivors of domestic violence. All residents living at bessie coleman court receive case management and access to a range of services including support groups, community gatherings, clothing and household items, and life skills training. Building futures also runs rapid rehousing subsidies and wraparound services to literally homeless families. The housing community support program assists chronically homeless individuals connected with housing with tenancy support services including assistance with goal planning, budgeting, connection to and maintanance of services, relationships with landlords, transportation, self-advicacy, and connection to mental health services, benefits, income, and health care.
$6,953,006 spent$8,152,718 earned by the program53% of program spendingHomeless services building futures operates two emergency shelters for women and children experiencing homelessness: the 30-bed san leandro shelter, and the 25-bed midway shelter. Participants are connected to the shelters through alameda county's coordinated entry system. Services include shelter, case management, referrals to housing programs, community and mainstream benefits and services, primary dental, medical and mental health care, financial literacy, and personalized advocacy and assistance. Residents also receive meals, shower and laundry facilities, and 24/7 staffing to ensure their safety. The agency also operates winter warming shelters in alameda and san leandro, providing overnight shelter and two meals. Street outreach programs in alameda, san leandro, and oakland connect people in need to one a housing resource center, where they are provided with housing problem solving, crisis assessment, and enrollment in one of building futures' coordinated entry system access points in san leandro, alameda, or oakland.
$2,910,466 spent$3,110,830 earned by the program22% of program spendingDomestic violence services a spectrum of services including a 20-bed domestic violence shelter where residents receive shelter, food, counseling, case management, referrals to housing programs, community and mainstream benefits and services, primary dental, medical, and mental health care; financial literacy, and personalized advocacy and assistance. Residents also receive meals, shower and laundry facilities, and 24/7 staffing to ensure safety. The agency also provides a 24-hour domestic violence crisis line and community outreach services including safety planning, counseling, support groups, court accompaniment, education, and other needed services. Twice annually, the agency delivers the california 40-hour domestic violence counselor training. Services to dv survivors also include connection to building futures' domestic violence coordinated entry access point and housing program.
$1,837,215 spent$2,123,154 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther services: building futures serves as fiscal sponsor to the interfaith homeless network/april showers. The group provides services to people experiencing homelessness on the first, third and fifth sunday of each month. The april showers event provides a welcoming safe place to receive showers, new underwear and socks, a hot lunch, coffee and pastries, clothing, a bag lunch and bottled water, haircuts, and referrals and information for health care, social services, housing, jobs, and transportation.
$1,471,676 spent$1,471,676 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,172,363.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.2M to $6.2M (+49%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Varela
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $143k → $775k.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 22% · 2019 39% · 2020 29% · 2021 47% · 2022 28% · 2023 52% — broadly stable.
“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.
How long its funders stay
48% of CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $570k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Government funding CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bessie Coleman Court Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,004,608 to it, the largest being Family Violence Law Center ($698,577). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,004,608 in grants to CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- Family Violence Law Center is the largest funder on record, with $698,577 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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