New York · Private foundation
Cogitandum Inc
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.
- $136k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 34
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Cogitandum Inc 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; $3k 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 | 35 | $136k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $92k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $117k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $131k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $89k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $65k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scenic Hudson Inc | $166,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc | $146,800 | 6 | 1% |
| Briarcliff Congregational Church | $108,200 | 6 | n/a |
| Neighbors Link Corp | $18,650 | 6 | 0% |
| Jacob Burns Film Center Inc | $17,650 | 6 | 0% |
| Teatown Lake Reservation Inc | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wnet | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Sing Sing Prison Museum | $13,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Ossining Micro Fund Inc | $8,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Open Door Inc | $7,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($71k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cogitandum Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Hudson Road Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · Chapman Family Foundation · The Van Steen Foundation · St Faith's House Foundation · Yvonne & Leslie Pollack Family Foundation Inc · David Swope Fund U Art VIII of Rev Tr Dtd July 25 2017 · Dede Emerson Foundation Inc · Phelps Community Foundation Inc · Pilzer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Cogitandum Inc
- How much does Cogitandum Inc give?
- Cogitandum Inc reported 35 grants totaling $136,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Cogitandum Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Environment (28%), Religion (18%).
- Who are Cogitandum Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Scenic Hudson Inc ($166k), Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc ($147k), Briarcliff Congregational Church ($108k).
- Does Cogitandum Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cogitandum Inc 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 Cogitandum Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hudson Road Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is Cogitandum Inc based?
- Cogitandum Inc is based in NY.
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