Wisconsin · Private foundation
Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $91k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 72%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,152
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $269k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 72% of the organizations Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 | 22 | $76k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $180k | 72% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $203k | 76% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $142k | 81% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $158k | 90% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $90k | 91% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $67k | 73% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $108k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunger Task Force Inc | $137,065 | 7 | 0% |
| Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Board of the University of Alabama | $12,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Marquette University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Dancing Grannies Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Milwaukee School of Engineering | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Concordia University Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Duke University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Carroll University Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($555k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Youth Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Ros Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc
- How much does Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc give?
- Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $91,138 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (28%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hunger Task Force Inc ($137k), Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Inc ($50k), Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc ($13k).
- Does Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc based?
- Cousins Subs Make It Better Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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