Minnesota · Private foundation
Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation
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.
- $27k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $419k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 18 | $27k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $48k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $35k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $29k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $31k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $30k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $26k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $20k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Reef Fund | $89,500 | 9 | 2% |
| Franconia Sculpture Park Legeros | $57,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Walker Art Center | $9,600 | 9 | 0% |
| Compassion & Choices | $4,900 | 7 | 0% |
| Wild Rivers Conservancy of the St Croix & Namekagon | $4,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $4,350 | 7 | 0% |
| Northside Achievement Zone | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Minnesota Museum of American Art | $3,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts | $2,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Lewis & Clark College | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation 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: The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · The McNeely Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Hrk Foundation · William Boss Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation with peer funders
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About Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation
- How much does Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation give?
- Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $26,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), International (33%), Environment (6%).
- Who are Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mill Reef Fund ($90k), Franconia Sculpture Park Legeros ($57k), Walker Art Center ($10k).
- Does Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles 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 Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The McKnight Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation.
- Where is Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation based?
- Constance Mayeron Cowles & Charles Fuller Cowles Foundation is based in MN.
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