Michigan · Private foundation
Cosgrove Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $220k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,563
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Cosgrove Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationHealthOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $220k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $77k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $49k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $15k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $6k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $2k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $1k | n/a |
96% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Public Safety & Disaster$154kHuman Services$74kEducation$63kCommunity Improvement$26kReligion$25kArts & Culture$21kPublic Benefit$15kHealth$5kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Town Playhouse Inc | $20,820 | 4 | 2% |
| Addiction Treatment Services Inc | $4,622 | 1 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northern Michigan University | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mt Holiday Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope College | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($364k), not named here.
About Cosgrove Foundation
- How much does Cosgrove Foundation give?
- Cosgrove Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $219,507 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cosgrove Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (39%), Human Services (19%), Education (16%).
- Who are Cosgrove Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Old Town Playhouse Inc ($21k), Addiction Treatment Services Inc ($5k), Michigan State University ($1k).
- Does Cosgrove Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cosgrove Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Cosgrove Foundation based?
- Cosgrove Foundation is based in MI.
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The camps
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