Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Cognizant US Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $20M
- Granted FY2021
- 59
- Grants FY2021
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2021
Read this first · the figures below need context
70% of Cognizant US Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Cognizant US Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 31 organizations, $20M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2021
- $203,042
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $1,750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 58
- FY2019 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 16
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 76% of the organizations Cognizant US Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 58 | $20M | 76% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $14M | 74% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $11M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.
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, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teach for America Inc | $5,244,350 | 4 | 1% |
| Codepathorg | $4,150,000 | 4 | 39% |
| Northeastern University | $2,381,750 | 2 | 0% |
| National Governors Association Center for Best Practices | $2,122,500 | 2 | 8% |
| The Urban Institute | $2,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| National Center for Women and Information Technology | $1,769,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Scripted Inc Dba Code Nation | $1,550,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $1,490,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Opportunitywork Inc | $1,300,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Cornell University | $1,286,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($21M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cognizant US Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 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.
Open a dossier: Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Tides Foundation · Gates Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Patrick J McGovern Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cognizant US Foundation
- How much does Cognizant US Foundation give?
- Cognizant US Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $20,405,173 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 58 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
- What does Cognizant US Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Education (30%), Employment (16%).
- Who are Cognizant US Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: Teach for America Inc ($5.2M), Codepathorg ($4.2M), Northeastern University ($2.4M).
- Does Cognizant US Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cognizant US 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 Cognizant US Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund, Tides Foundation, Gates Foundation.
- Where is Cognizant US Foundation based?
- Cognizant US Foundation is based in DC.
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