Maryland · Nonprofit
CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY
CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY (Maryland) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $929,122 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($319,250). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $929k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Cornerstone Montgomery does
Mission
Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Intensive and specialty services:residential rehabilitation program provides community support, general housing, and intensive housing services. The program is organized to assist people to live as independently as possible through the provision of training, supervision, and assistance in the skills of community living. The program provides evidence-based practices such as dbt (dialectical behavioral therapy), itcod (integrated treatment of co-occurring disorders), and imr (illness management and recovery). Staffing is available at the different sites ranging from drop-in to 24 hours per day. Crisis residential program (fenton, granby, and layhill houses) provides a community-based residential alternative to inpatient hospitalization. The program provides intensive 24 hours per day staff supervision in a group home setting to help people in psychiatric crisis to become stabilized and return to normal life routines as quickly as possible.assertive community treatment (act) is an intensive treatment model which combines outpatient mental health and psychiatric rehabilitation services. It provides assertive outreach, treatment, and support to adults who have not been successful in…
$13,764,964 spentof which $389,829 as grants$19,122,589 earned by the program50% of program spendingCommunity services:vocational programs provide vocational services to the supported employment teams and the employment focus clusters. The range of vocational services provided includes vocational assessment and planning services, supported employment job search and coaching services, work adjustment training, job placement, and employee support services.transition age youth services (tay) are provided under the umbrella of the vocational programs. The career transition program provides a unique combination of mental health, career/vocational and educational resources to assist students and their families in identifying and obtaining necessary resources to assist in a successful transition from school to work or post-secondary academic environments. The career academic psychiatric-rehabilitation services program provides a combination of supported education and supported employment services to young adults aged 18-25 post high school to assist them in achieving their employment and academic goals. This program provides a range of services including vocational assessment, supported employment job search and coaching, assistance with college registration, and linkage to community…
$9,117,118 spent$9,387,149 earned by the program33% of program spendingClinic and medical services:clinic provides psychiatric therapy and medication services. The program is organized to provide continuity and integrated care. It offers individual and group treatment modalities. The program uses evidence base practice interventions such as family psychoeducation and itcod. In addition, the individual therapy, group therapy, and medication services are available to anyone in the community in need of such services.health homes program is a part of a state-based effort to improve the health of individuals with chronic health conditions. It supports a broader effort to integrate somatic and behavioral health services. The program targets populations with behavioral health needs who are at high risk for additional chronic conditions including those with serious persistent mental health disorders and chronic health issues like diabetes, obesity, etc. Health homes offers participants enhanced care coordination services from providers with whom they regularly receive care. Health homes is providing services through its psychiatric rehabilitation program and health home staff. This is a community-based approach, not a residential program and has several…
$4,652,911 spent$2,117,222 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,534,993.
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 $30M to $35M (+16%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 12% · 2021 22% · 2022 10% · 2023 4% · 2024 9% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Cari Guthrie
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Amanda Freeman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $245k → $158k.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 MONTGOMERY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 MONTGOMERY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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
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 CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 94% · 2019 56% · 2020 33% · 2021 20% · 2022 70% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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
22% of CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
62% of CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $374k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 MONTGOMERY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.4M on record — $11.1M federal, $235k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$11.1M
- Grant$235k
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 MONTGOMERY
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY?
- CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY (Maryland) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $929,122 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($319,250). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $929,122 in grants to CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $319,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORNERSTONE MONTGOMERY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing