Rhode Island · Private foundation
C Cowles Community Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $73k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $497k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations C Cowles Community Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $71k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $71k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $20k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $78k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $60k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $42k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $32k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater New Haven Inc | $37,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater New Haven Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cure Rare Disease Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Voice Health Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Links to College Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Steinman Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Ed Walsh Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| North Haven Lions Charities Inc | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth Haven Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($331k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About C Cowles Community Trust
- How much does C Cowles Community Trust give?
- C Cowles Community Trust reported 10 grants totaling $73,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does C Cowles Community Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Philanthropy (14%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are C Cowles Community Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: United Way of Greater New Haven Inc ($37k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater New Haven Inc ($12k), Cure Rare Disease Inc ($12k).
- Does C Cowles Community Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does C Cowles Community Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as C Cowles Community Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is C Cowles Community Trust based?
- C Cowles Community Trust is based in RI.
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