· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCENIC HUDSON | $45,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE | $30,000 |
| BRIARCLIFF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $14,000 |
| NEIGHBORS LINK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GO SEE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SING SING PRISON MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION | $2,500 |
| WNET FOR FIRING LINE | $2,500 |
| REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS | $1,500 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC | $1,500 |
| NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BRIARCLIFF MANOR | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHScenic Hudson Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $166k · revenue +66%
- HVHUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $147k · revenue +330%
- NLNEIGHBORS LINK CORP6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- SPSCARBOROUGH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $1k
- RMROCKWELL MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $1k
- GHGULLOTTA HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +74%
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.
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 primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…
None
The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Inc. (the Catskill Center) is a not-for-profit organization under the non-profit laws of the State of New York. The mission of the Catskill Center is to preserve and enrich the…
Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…
The Historical Society of Rockland County is a museum and educational organization dedicated to engaging diverse audiences in a dynamic dialogue about the rich historical heritage of the county.
Artswestchester's mission is to create an equitable, inclusive, vibrant and sustainable westchester county in which the arts are integral to and integrated into every facet of life.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
Protects and restores the hudson river from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies.
Productions
To promote the preservation, protection, and balanced use of the wallkill valley through acquisition, holding, and management of fee simple title conservation easements.
Fundraising, marketing and communication and public policy for the hudson river park.
To hold and manage open space property for the public's benefit and assist in the preservation and stewardship of the scenic beauty, natural communities and recreational amenities in greene county, ny and surrounding areas.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds SING SING PRISON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OSSINING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Ossining Padres Hispanos ↗
- Who funds Ossining Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds THE OSSINING LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY ARTS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GULLOTTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS FOR REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds EZRA JACK KEATS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cogitandum Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cogitandum Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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