New Jersey · Private foundation
Cochran Family Foundation
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.
- $710k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $117,074
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $241,243
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Cochran Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $710k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $677k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $618k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $871k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $832k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $768k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $682k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $821k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Literacy Coalition | $986,669 | 8 | 76% |
| Haven House | $986,669 | 8 | 16% |
| Care Free Medical Inc | $986,669 | 8 | 9% |
| City of East Lansing | $241,243 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), 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: Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Cochran Family Foundation
- How much does Cochran Family Foundation give?
- Cochran Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $709,539 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cochran Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (36%), Education (17%), Health (17%).
- Who are Cochran Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Capital Area Literacy Coalition ($987k), Haven House ($987k), Care Free Medical Inc ($987k).
- Does Cochran Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cochran Family Foundation 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 Cochran Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lansing Economic Area Partnership, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Cochran Family Foundation based?
- Cochran Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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