Virginia · Nonprofit
CORNERSTONES INC
CORNERSTONES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,536,426 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($671,779). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Cornerstones Inc does
Mission
Together with our community, cornerstones promotes stability, empowerment, and hope through support, advocacy, and community-building for individuals and families in need. Providing more than 26,000 instances of services annually throughout fairfax and loudoun counties, cornerstones work is focused in three key areas of providing affordable housing, ensuring food security, and supporting thriving families and children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For more than 50 years, cornerstones has provided comprehensive human services and wrap around case management support to help individuals and families gain stability and build resiliency and opportunity. Cornerstones' core programs and impact are as follows: providing stable housing: programs include the embry rucker community shelter (ercs), seasonal and overflow shelter, homelessness prevention and rapid re-housing services, affordable rental housing, and foreclosure and eviction prevention counseling.
$6,073,715 spent$411,420 earned by the program48% of program spendingEnsuring food security: through our free from hunger food rescue center (food hub), on-site pantry, and emergency financial assistance, we work to ensure families have consistent access to food and critical resources. Since opening, the food hub has rescued or sourced more than 1,000,000 pounds of food - distributing an average of 6,283 pounds per week, equivalent to more than 5,200 meals for families.
$3,049,904 spent$55,291 earned by the program24% of program spendingSupporting thriving children and families: cornerstones provides affordable childcare, youth development, and family strengthening programs that help children succeed and families thrive. Laurel learning center offers high-quality early childhood education, including developmental screenings, school readiness, and pre- and afterschool academic enrichment, along with full-day summer recreational and cultural programs serving nearly 100 students.for school-age youth, cornerstones delivers out-of-school time programs that support academic success and personal growth through tutoring in math and reading, career exploration, service-learning, and enrichment activities.
$1,703,939 spent$1,287,037 earned by the program13% of program spendingThrough our opportunity neighborhood initiatives in reston and herndon, community connected sites, and neighborhood resource centers, we work alongside community leaders, nonprofits, and volunteers to address systemic inequities. These efforts strengthen connections between schools, families, and critical resources - creating more equitable opportunities for children and youth in underserved communities.
$1,883,728 spent$159,545 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,711,286.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.4M to $7.3M (+111%).
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 39% · 2018 40% · 2019 40% · 2020 41% · 2021 64% · 2022 66% · 2023 61% · 2024 58% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of CORNERSTONES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
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
Ms Kerrie B Wilson
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Mr Andrew Lacher
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 33 funders, grant income fell $369k → $368k.
20 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 CORNERSTONES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
CORNERSTONES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
65% 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 CORNERSTONES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 15% · 2019 25% · 2020 15% · 2021 20% · 2022 18% · 2023 13% — 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
50% of CORNERSTONES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
61% of CORNERSTONES INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Against its field
CORNERSTONES INC's revenue grew 53% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CORNERSTONES INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Cornerstones North Point LLC · disregarded
- Cornerstones Housing Corporation (Chc) · exempt
- Rihc Partners LP · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CORNERSTONES INC?
- CORNERSTONES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,536,426 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($671,779). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORNERSTONES INC have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $4,536,426 in grants to CORNERSTONES INC, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORNERSTONES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $671,779 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORNERSTONES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 90 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