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.

C Cowles Community Trust

C Cowles Community Trust at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$228kPhilanthropy$62kCommunity Improvement$46kHuman Services$32kArts & Culture$16kYouth Development$12kEducation$10kPublic Benefit$9kOther$0

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $23k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$497k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER	$50,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN	$5,000
GREATER NEW HAVEN CHAMBER	$4,000
MUSIC UNDER THE STARS INC	$2,750
GAYLORD SPECIALTY HEALTHCARE	$2,500
THE MADISON FOUNDATION N2N	$2,500
The Steinman Foundation	$2,500
SMILOW CANCER HOSPITAL	$1,500
MARCUM FOUNDATION	$1,500
North Haven Lions Charities Inc	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$396k · 21 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +166% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$396k

$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+166%

-7%

Still filing today

19%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +103%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC
3× · 2018–2022 · $12k · revenue +166%
CR
CURE RARE DISEASE INC
4× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue ×78

Funded once

VH
VOICE HEALTH INSTITUTE
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -7%
EW
Ed Walsh Foundation
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -44%
YH
YOUTH HAVEN INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +323%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Goldman Sachs Foundation

Philanthropy

The Goldstein Family Foundation

Philanthropy

The Goldenberg Family Foundation

Philanthropy

Connecticut Health Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

The Teddy Balkind Charitable Foundation

Philanthropy

Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation

Environment

Danny Weinstein Youth Foundation

Philanthropy

Norfolk Connecticut Childrens Foundation

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Yankee Foundation

—

The Diane Stilwell Weinberg Foundation

Human Services

Libman Family Foundation

Education

Cashman Family Foundation

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater New Haven Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Steinman Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

6/9

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$347,895Philanthropy$42,500Health$32,000Human Services$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization C Cowles Community Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C Cowles Community Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home