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Couchman Family Fund

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.

$16k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$106k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Couchman Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalAnimalsPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther
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 arriving10$16k80%
FY20247$5k71%
FY20232$6k50%
FY20222$4k100%
FY20211$300100%
FY20206$6kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$19kEducation$13kInternational$8kHealth$4kAnimals$3kFood & Nutrition$2kEnvironment$1kCrime & Legal$955Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Couchman Family Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEthical Culture Fieldston School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRazom Inc: $7,881 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica Gives Inc: $2,740 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBank Street College of Education: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,733 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteers in Medicine - San Francisco: $1,591 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $1,273 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $955 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young People's Chorus of New York City Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiverside Park Conservancy Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetH2o for Life: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $246 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetXerces Society Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% 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 14.

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About Couchman Family Fund

How much does Couchman Family Fund give?
Couchman Family Fund reported 10 grants totaling $15,910 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Couchman Family Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Education (23%), International (15%).
Who are Couchman Family Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ethical Culture Fieldston School ($10k), Razom Inc ($8k), America Gives Inc ($3k).
Does Couchman Family Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Couchman Family Fund 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.
Where is Couchman Family Fund based?
Couchman Family Fund is based in NY.

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 24 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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