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Colten Cowell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$385k
Granted FY2024still arriving
146
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Human Services$321kHealth$284kEducation$33kArts & Culture$18kFood & Nutrition$13kRecreation & Sports$10kReligion$8kAnimals$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 146 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k138 grants · $227k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $158k
$1,099
Median grant
13
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$34,000
CHILDRENS CANCER NETWORK$30,500
ARIZONA CANCER FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN$26,000
Individual grant recipient$16,000
BEST BUDDIES ARIZONA$14,500
Individual grant recipient$12,500
RAISING SPECIAL KIDS$12,500
AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS$12,000
FEEDING MATTERS$8,500
BILLY'S PLACE$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
GIGIS PLAYHOUSE$8,000
SHARING DS$8,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
LILYS PAD$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BAKINGMEMORIES4KIDS: $1k → 14%RYAN HOUSE: $2k → 11%ROOM FOR JOY: $2k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $2k → 11%PATSY REEVE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%RAISING SPECIAL KIDS: $13k → 11%RAISING SPECIAL KIDS: $2k → 11%ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED: $2k → 11%SILVER SPUR THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $1k → 11%THE SINGLETONS: $1k → 11%CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE: $2k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $2k → 11%ANTHEM CARES THROUGH SERVICE: $2k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $8k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $4k → 11%BELIEVE I CAN ACADEMY: $4k → 11%BILLY'S PLACE: $2k → 11%MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%SUZY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%THE OPEN TABLE: $5k → 11%ASA NOW: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$514k · 34 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 118 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
46

Total granted

$514k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+26%

Still filing today

56%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

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

  • CC
    CHILDRENS CANCER NETWORK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +2%
  • AC
    Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $38k · revenue +102%
  • AH
    AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $31k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SF
    SMILES FOR MILES
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • HO
    HOME OF THE HOMIES WITH XTRA CHROMIES
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • PF
    PILLOWS FROM PRESTON
    one grant, 2022 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
2
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
3
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
4
Shinecology

A community for pediatric cancer familie

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5
Be the Rainbow Foundation

Be The Rainbow Foundation provides support to families facing childhood cancer by partnering with families and family support organizations, helping to relieve some of the financial and emotional burdens that come with a pediatric cancer…

Health
6
Austin Wade Foundation

Children battling cancer

Unclassified
7
Circle of Care for Families of Children With Cancer Inc

Circle of care for families of children provides practical, emotional, and financial support from their day of diagnosis, through treatment and beyond. our programs and services address the unique and challenging non-medical needs of…

Health
8
Chasin a Dream Foundation Inc

To provide individualized, life changing assistance to families with children battling cancer, cystic fibrosis, and other life threatening illnesses.

Human Services
9
Team Emma 4EVER Fighting Childhood Cancer
Philanthropy
10
Super Heroes With Super Kids
Philanthropy
11
Catalinas Gift

To provide support and assistance to parents and families affected by pediatric cancer.

Human Services
12
Shoot Down Kids Cancer Foundation
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopekids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gye Di. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Ministry SupportArizona Advocacy & Policy O…Charter SchoolsVeterans Service Organizati…School Parent-Teacher Organ…Senior Affordable HousingPerforming Arts Organizatio…Professional Industry Assoc…Family Support & Housing Se…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 13 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%8%<5yr17%23%5–10yr19%39%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr10%6%35–55yr10%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%4%<5yr17%16%5–10yr19%39%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr10%6%35–55yr10%2%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
17%
2,923/16,985

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 198 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
29/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $59,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBEST BUDDIES ARIZONA — $30,500 · OtherBEST BUDDIES ARIZONAIndividual grant recipient — $23,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC — $18,000 · Other+144 more — $141,370 · Other+144 moreCHILDRENS CANCER NETWORK — $54,500 · HealthCHILDRENS CANCER NETWORKAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS — $31,000 · HealthAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELSSHARING DOWN SYNDROME ARIZONA INC — $21,000 · HealthSHARING DOWN SYNDROME ARIZONA IN…HOPEKIDS INC — $17,000 · HealthHOPEKIDS INCCAMPBELLS CREW CARES — $15,500 · HealthCAMPBELLS CREW CARESFEEDING MATTERS INC — $15,500 · HealthFEEDING MATTERS INC+16 more — $49,000 · Health+16 moreEncircle Families — $14,500 · Human ServicesEncircle F…BILLY'S PLACE INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesBILLY'S PL…OPEN TABLE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesOPEN TABLE…BELIEVE I CAN ACADEMY INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesBELIEVE I …RYAN HOUSE — $4,000 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSETHE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Human ServicesPATSY REEVE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Human Services+10 more — $16,000 · Human Services+10 moreArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc — $38,000 · Public BenefitLilys Pad — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentICING SMILES Inc — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentONCE UPON A ROOM INC — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JOY BUS — $8,500 · Food & NutritionTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE — $5,000 · AnimalsSUNSHINE DOG RESCUE INC — $1,000 · Animals
Other$371,370Health$203,500Human Services$62,500Public Benefit$38,000Youth Development$11,000Food & Nutrition$8,500Animals$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDRENS CANCER NETWORK — $54,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetArizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc — $38,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS — $31,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSHARING DOWN SYNDROME ARIZONA INC — $21,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC — $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPBELLS CREW CARES — $15,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetFEEDING MATTERS INC — $15,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEncircle Families — $14,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBILLY'S PLACE INC — $14,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE JOY BUS — $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLilys Pad — $8,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTS SUPPORTING BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGYE DI — $5,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME NETWORK INC DBA DSNetwork — $5,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBELIEVE BEYOND ABILITY — $5,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetBELIEVE I CAN ACADEMY INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRYAN HOUSE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAE OF LIGHT FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR HOPE INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetArmer Foundation for Kids — $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATSY REEVE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICING SMILES Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROOM FOR JOY — $2,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAnthem Cares Through Service — $2,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetI Got This Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMOTHER'S GRACE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSuzy Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PHOENIX FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBanner Health Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SINGLETONS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT CANCER FOUNDATION OF AZ — $1,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBrylan's Feat Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASA NOW — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAKING MEMORIES 4 KIDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SILVER SPUR THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEORIA DIAMOND CLUB — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOURTNEY'S COURAGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Thunderbirds CharitiesAmerican Express Foun…BHHS Legacy FoundationVirginia G Piper Char…Tempe Diablos Chariti…Phoenix Suns Charitie…The Foundation for Co…The Albertsons Compan…Executive Council Cha…John F Long Foundatio…The Diane and Bruce H…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ38× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · American Express Foundation · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Tempe Diablos Charities Inc · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Executive Council Charities · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle 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 Colten Cowell 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Colten Cowell Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Colten Cowell Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 198 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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