Commonwealth Cornerstone Group
Harrisburg, PA · EIN 42-1637418. Reported 25 grants totalling $38.2M to 25 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Commonwealth Cornerstone Group, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $1,161,510. Half of what it reported fell between $774,986 and $1,700,000; the smallest was $411,975 and the largest $5,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project H O M E Community Development Corporation | Philadelphia, PA | $5,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regent Terrace | Kingston, PA | $4,800,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vernon House | Kingston, PA | $3,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $2,200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 901 Mill Revival | Emmaus, PA | $2,148,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mill II | Emmaus, PA | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cloisters III | Kingston, PA | $1,700,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Freedom | Lancaster, PA | $1,575,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Homewood | Pittsburgh, PA | $1,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dalmatia Elderly | Lewisburg, PA | $1,350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Landisville I | Lancaster, PA | $1,350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City Mission-Living Stones | Uniontown, PA | $1,183,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coraopolis Gardens | Pittsburgh, PA | $1,161,510 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Walnut St Apts | Lancaster, PA | $1,080,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 1850 N Croskey Developmentcorporation | Philadelphia, PA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amani Christian Community Development Corp | Pittsburgh, PA | $900,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Allegheny Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods Housing Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $825,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Summit House Retirement | Pittsburgh, PA | $798,327 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caribe Towers Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $774,986 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Willow Court | Mount Carmel, PA | $701,420 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Light of Life Ministries Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $660,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Old Market Preservation - Ephrata | Lancaster, PA | $660,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hazelwood | Pittsburgh, PA | $540,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Terrace Townhomes | Chambersburg, PA | $417,228 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Evangelical Senior Housing | Philadelphia, PA | $411,975 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Project Home Pres
HOUSING OPTIONS GRANT PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 9 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $1,161,510 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Commonwealth Cornerstone Group's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 211 N Front St, Harrisburg, PA, 17101.
EIN 42-1637418 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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