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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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+29 grants · $18M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CODE PATH | $1,750,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $1,500,000 |
| NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES | $1,222,500 |
| WITNY (CORNELL UNIV)(BREAKTHROUGH TECH) | $1,000,000 |
| CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (CUNY) | $1,000,000 |
| TURING SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| URBAN INSTITUTE | $1,000,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $955,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | $902,000 |
| ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY | $750,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $685,000 |
| CODE NATION | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| JOBS FOR THE FUTURE | $500,000 |
| COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION | $500,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 36% of Cognizant US Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
34 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCODEPATHORG4× · 2019–2022 · $4.2M · revenue ×13 · 39% of their budget
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +53%
THE URBAN INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CUCornell University Women in Technology &one grant, 2019 · $2.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mitchell Kapor Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 99 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BNY MELLON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CODEPATHORG ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR WOMEN AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITYWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds TURING SCHOOL OF SOFTWARE AND DESIG ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION LLC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cognizant US Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Achieving the Dream Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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