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Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
116
Grants FY2025
108
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
69 to 108
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
18
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving105$1.6M13%
FY2024108$2.1M20%
FY202396$2.8M17%
FY202289$3.4M21%
FY202199$2.1M33%
FY202083$2.0M18%
FY201969$885k12%
FY201882$1.4M23%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.6MEnvironment$4.2MHealth$3.4MArts & Culture$918kYouth Development$874kRecreation & Sports$754kFood & Nutrition$690kHuman Services$690kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
WY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Acadia$1,897,85074%
LifeFlight of Maine LLC$1,535,00084%
Yale University$1,389,1678n/a
Yale University$987,3336n/a
Maine Seacoast Mission$828,50094%
Island Institute$726,00093%
National Forest Foundation$683,90091%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc$675,00083%
College of the Atlantic$460,00051%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$459,50090%
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All grantees of Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of Acadia$1,897,85074%
LifeFlight of Maine LLC$1,535,00084%
Yale University$1,389,1678n/a
Yale University$987,3336n/a
Maine Seacoast Mission$828,50094%
Island Institute$726,00093%
National Forest Foundation$683,90091%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc$675,00083%
College of the Atlantic$460,00051%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$459,50090%
Greenwich Country Day School Inc$437,50080%
North Haven Foundation$430,000920%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$413,50083%
Mount Desert Island Hospital$381,50090%
Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters$365,50065%
Greenwich Emergency Medical Service Inc$355,00091%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$343,50090%
University of New England$300,00020%
Northeast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc$300,000736%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$290,00050%
Yellowstone Forever$209,00071%
Island Connections$200,000524%
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA$193,50073%
Mount Desert Nursing Assoc$141,00093%
Yale Alumni Chorus Foundation Inc$101,000218%
Food Rescue US Inc$98,00040%
Americares Foundation Inc$85,00030%
Island Housing Trust$75,00051%
Buckley Institute Inc$62,50091%
C&O Canal Trust Inc$55,00062%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$50,00010%
Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital$50,00010%
The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc$48,50060%
Yankee Institute for Public Policy$48,00090%
The Berkshire School Inc$46,00050%
Historic Properties of Greenwich Inc$45,000318%
Bruce Museum Inc$45,00050%
Yale University$44,5006n/a
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$43,50080%
The Buckley School in the City of New York$41,50090%
Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation$36,50090%
Barnard College$35,00040%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$32,50060%
Wings World Quest Inc$32,000513%
The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc$31,00050%
Albany Institute of History and Art$30,00031%
Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc$28,50080%
Samaritan's Purse$27,50020%
Mt Desert Island YMCA$26,00051%
Greenwich Hospital$25,00050%
Americares Free Clinics Inc$25,00011%
Penobscot Bay Medical Center$25,0001n/a
The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital$25,00010%
Trustees of Phillips Academy$25,00090%
Zelienople Historical Society$25,000515%
Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County Inc$24,50050%
Watermans Community Center$24,50042%
Pacific House Inc$23,50050%
Greenwich Academy Inc$23,00020%
Greenwich Adult Day Care Inc$21,50090%
Greenwich Historical Society Inc$21,50050%
Pathways Inc$21,00090%
Widener University$20,00020%
United Way of Greenwich Inc$20,00021%
Neighbor to Neighbor Inc$20,00060%
Neighborhood House Club$20,00041%
Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc$20,00052%
University of New Haven$20,00020%
The Greenwich Library$19,50080%
Wendell Gilley Museum of Bird Carving$19,00051%
Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc$19,00050%
Waterside School Inc$18,50030%
Mount Desert Island Search & Rescue$18,5005n/a
Mdi Wheelers$17,5002n/a
Salisbury School Inc$17,50020%
Cardinal Quarterback Club Inc$17,0002n/a
American Friends of Magen David Adom$17,00030%
The Andrew K Dwyer Foundation$17,00091%
YWCA Greenwich Connecticut Inc$17,00030%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$16,50090%
Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park$15,50050%
MaineHealth$15,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$15,00090%
Old Timers Athletic Association of Greenwich Connecticut Inc$15,00029%
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund$15,00020%
Northeast Harbor Sailing School$14,50030%
Feeding America$14,00040%
Breast Cancer Alliance Inc$14,00030%
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc$13,50030%
Family Centers Inc$13,00050%
Buffalo Bill Memorial Association$13,00050%
Mount Desert Island Historical Society$13,00052%
Squash Haven Inc$12,00080%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$12,00050%
The Greenwich Tree Conservancy Inc$12,00081%
Healthy Acadia$11,25040%
Camp Beech Cliff$11,25030%
Northeast Harbor Library$11,00040%
B Cured Inc$11,00036%
Alumnae Association of Barnard College$11,0002n/a
American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece$10,500212%
The Corporation of Yaddo$10,00010%
Hellenic Initiative Inc$10,00010%
Stop Soldier Suicide Inc$10,00020%
The Everglades Foundation Inc$10,00010%
The Boot Campaign Inc$9,50030%
The Hill House Inc$9,50060%
The Greenwich Land Trust Inc$9,15050%
New England Aquarium Corporation$9,00050%
Islesford Boatworks$9,00044%
The Transportation Association of Greenwich$8,00090%
Greenwich Botanical Center Inc$8,00051%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$8,00080%
Save The Children Federation Inc$7,50030%
Cancer Support Team Inc$7,50020%
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc$7,50020%
Glenville Mavericks Inc$7,500220%
History Trust$7,5002n/a
Mory's Preservation Inc$6,50092%
Goodwill of Western and Northern Connecticut Inc$6,00020%
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve$6,00020%
Simply Smiles Inc$6,00040%
Laurel House Inc$6,00020%
National Parks Conservation Association$5,50060%
National Park Foundation$5,50060%
Alpha-1 Foundation Inc$5,50060%
Admiral Nimitz Foundation$5,0001n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,00010%
North Haven Sustainable Housing$5,00012%
Garrett B Smith Foundation$5,00012%
A Climate to Thrive$5,00021%
Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc$5,00010%
Hobe Sound Nature Center Inc$5,00011%
Cornell University$5,00010%
Gulf of Maine Research Institute$5,00010%
Food Allergy Research & Education Inc$5,00010%
Soldiers' Angels$4,50020%
Yale New Haven Hospital$4,50030%
Beatrix Farrand Society$4,50032%
Knox Inc$4,00010%
Abbe Museum$4,00040%
Millicent Rogers Museum Inc$4,00030%
Friends of Nathaniel Witherell Inc$3,50020%
Pivot Ministries Inc$3,50050%
Maine-Wabanaki Reach$3,00030%
Greenwich Riding & Trails Association Inc$3,00021%
National Executive Service Corps$3,00021%
American School at Hartford for the Deaf$2,50010%
Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc$2,50010%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$2,50020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$2,50010%
Friends of Greenwich Point$2,50032%
Camp Pasquaney$2,50010%
The Julie Fund Inc$2,50010%
Keepers of Baker Island$2,0002n/a
Gateway Youth Football League of Greenwich CT Inc$2,0002n/a
Covenant House$2,00020%
Mather Homestead Foundation$2,00020%
Camden Public Library Fund$2,00011%
Mianus River Gorge Inc$1,75030%
Team Heal Foundation Inc$1,50011%
Open Table Mdi$1,05020%
The Garden Conservancy Inc$1,00010%
Code Green Campaign$1,0001n/a
Midway USA Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$1,00010%
American Junior Golf Association Inc$1,00010%
The Salvation Army$1,0001n/a
Kerrville Pets Alive$1,0001n/a
Boys Hope Girls Hope of NY Inc$1,0001n/a
564 Park Avenue Preservation Foundation$1,00010%
Greenwich Green & Clean Inc$1,00011%
Folds of Honor Foundation$1,00010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$1,00020%
Abilis Inc$85010%
Greenwich Teen Center Inc$7501n/a
Ubuntu Pathways Inc$60010%
The Garden Club of America$60010%
Keep Austin Neighborly$50011%
Under 21$50010%
Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc$50010%
Connecticut Humane Society$50010%
Palm Springs Art Museum$5001n/a
Center for Family Services of Palm Beach County Inc$50010%
Adam J Lewis Academy Inc$5001n/a
Mercymed of Columbus Inc Attn Tony Nguyen$50010%
Glenville Volunteer Fire Co No1 Inc$5001n/a
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs$50010%
K9s for Warriors Inc$5001n/a
Southern Harbor Eldercare Services$50010%
Austin Bulldog Rescue$50010%
The National World War II Museum Inc$50010%
The Eisenhower Foundation$50010%
Grand Canyon Conservancy$50010%
Junior League of Greenwich Conn Inc$50010%
Semper K9 Assistance Dogs$25010%
Coffee for Good Inc$25010%
Wheel It Forward Inc$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 176 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Acadia: $1,897,850 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetLifeFlight of Maine LLC: $1,535,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetMaine Seacoast Mission: $828,500 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetIsland Institute: $726,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetNational Forest Foundation: $683,900 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCamp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc: $675,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCollege of the Atlantic: $460,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $459,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwich Country Day School Inc: $437,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Haven Foundation: $430,000 over 9y, 20% of budgetThe William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc: $413,500 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetMount Desert Island Hospital: $381,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters: $365,500 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetGreenwich Emergency Medical Service Inc: $355,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $343,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of New England: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNortheast Harbor Ambulance Service Inc: $300,000 over 7y, 36% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $290,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $209,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetIsland Connections: $200,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $193,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetMount Desert Nursing Assoc: $141,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetYale Alumni Chorus Foundation Inc: $101,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFood Rescue US Inc: $98,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Housing Trust: $75,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBuckley Institute Inc: $62,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetC&O Canal Trust Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc: $48,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYankee Institute for Public Policy: $48,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Berkshire School Inc: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Properties of Greenwich Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetBruce Museum Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $43,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buckley School in the City of New York: $41,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $36,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBarnard College: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWings World Quest Inc: $32,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlbany Institute of History and Art: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGreenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc: $28,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMt Desert Island YMCA: $26,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGreenwich Hospital: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmericares Free Clinics Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 176.

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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.

Colket Family FoundationPA44.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colket Family Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Florence V Burden Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ethel D Colket Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Malkin Fund Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · The Howard Johnson Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith F Foundation (Dba Thornedge Fdn)

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc

How much does Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc give?
Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc reported 116 grants totaling $1,580,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 108 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Environment (24%), Health (20%).
Who are Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of Acadia ($1.9M), LifeFlight of Maine LLC ($1.5M), Yale University ($1.4M).
Does Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc 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 Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colket Family Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Florence V Burden Foundation.
Where is Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc based?
Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 231 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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