Massachusetts · Private foundation
Cogan 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2025
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 81 to 89
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Cogan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 80 | $1.5M | 3% |
| FY2024 | 81 | $1.4M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 82 | $1.4M | 2% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $1.5M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 87 | $1.5M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 84 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $1,275,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $455,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $315,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $275,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $240,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $230,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $175,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($335k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cogan Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Cogan Family Foundation
- How much does Cogan Family Foundation give?
- Cogan Family Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $1,469,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 89 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Cogan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (29%), Health (25%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Cogan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Boston Medical Center Corporation ($1.3M), United States Fund for Unicef ($455k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($315k).
- Does Cogan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cogan 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 Cogan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cogan Family Foundation based?
- Cogan Family Foundation is based in MA.
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